Imperialism and Resistance in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace
Journal Title: Notions A Journal of English Literature - Year 2018, Vol 0, Issue 4
Abstract
The present paperrepresents analytical themes of Amitav Ghosh,The Glass Palace. It tries to analyze how the novel is related to empire. Amitav Ghosh attempts to investigate the imperialismthat are laid bare in the novel under study. Setting from Michel Foucault’s central argument of the interaction between power and resistance, it finally advocates the themes of resistance articulated in the current novel. When AmitavGhosh highlights “we rebelled against an Empire that has shaped everything in our lives; Colored every Thing in the world as we know it. It is a huge, indelible stain which has tainted all of us. We cannot destroy it without destroying ourselves. And that, I suppose, is where I am (518). So AmitavGhosh exposes the common people who become marginalized in their own country. He raises subalterns’ voices against the oppressive forces of their society. His fictions explore his sympathetic attitude towards the subaltern. The problems of alienation; migration and existential crisis in life of the unprivileged class of the society are explored through Ghoshs’ fictions. The voice of the subalterns and their struggles get a prominent voice in a different way. He thus exposes poverty and homelessness of Indian nation during British empire. Rather, he narrates the societies and human beings and their inter-relationship.To bridge the gap that other writers leaves in terms of her neglecting of woman’s rule towards the British colonizer. AmitavGhosh’s fiction portrays the woman as the leading spirits, he avoids victimization and degradation of women. However, other writers depict woman and her experience in patriarchal societies with a deep sympathetic way.
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Ruqia Ali Al-Imad
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