The Global Deluge: Floods, Diluvian Imagery, and Aquatic Language in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Gun Island.

Kluwick, Ursula (2020). The Global Deluge: Floods, Diluvian Imagery, and Aquatic Language in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Gun Island. Green letters, 24(1), pp. 64-78. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/14688417.2020.1752516

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This article reappraises the potential of realism with respect to the
representation of climate change through an analysis of the figure
of the flood in what I term Anthropocene water fictions. The article
draws on Amitav Ghosh’s nonfictional The Great Derangement
(2016) together with his novels The Hungry Tide (2004) and Gun
Island (2019), published before and after The Great Derangement,
respectively. I argue that through their development of an aquatic
language and diluvian imagery, Anthropocene water fictions challenge
the limitations of realism that Ghosh identifies in The Great
Derangement.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of English Languages and Literatures

UniBE Contributor:

Kluwick, Ursula Maria

Subjects:

800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 820 English & Old English literatures
400 Language > 420 English & Old English languages

ISSN:

2168-1414

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Language:

English

Submitter:

Ursula Maria Kluwick Kälin

Date Deposited:

26 Jan 2021 16:20

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:41

Publisher DOI:

10.1080/14688417.2020.1752516

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/147726

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/147726

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