• January to March 2024 Article ID: NSS8695 Impact Factor:7.67 Cite Score:391 Download: 26 DOI: https://doi.org/ View PDf

    Postmodern Perspective in the Novels of Amitav Ghosh

      Rajendra Mishra
        Asst. Prof. & HOD (English) Govt. M.H.College of Home Science & Science for Women, Jabalpur (M.P.)
  • Abstract - This paper is an attempt to apply the post-modern theory in Amitav Ghosh’s novels. Post modernism is a socio-cultural and artistic concept, as well as a shift in view point that has expressed itself in a wide range of disciplines, including the human sciences, art, architectural style, literary works, fashion, communications, and innovative technologies. It is widely acknowledged that the postmodern shift in perception began in the late 1950s and is probable still ongoing. Post Colonial authors also perform to recapture the past, as their own pasts were frequently removed or dismissed under imperialism, as well as to understand their own culture and personal identities and to chart their own future prospects with their own terms rather than the terms imposed on them by colonialist ideological framework. Amitav Ghosh is regarded a postmodernist. He has been greatly influenced by India’s post-independence political and cultural milieu. As a social anthropologist with the opportunity to visit foreign lands, he comments on the current state of the world in his novels. His works reflect the element of post modernism.

    Keywords: Postmodernism, Cultural milieu, Architecture, National boundaries, Anthropologist.