AMITAV GHOSH AND THE THEME OF SUBALTERNITY

<p>Amitav Ghosh’s literary works including fictional and non-fictional works represent<br>both the colonial and postcolonial society. They also highlight the patterns of history,<br>subalternity, and issues of crossing national boundaries, the meaning of political<br>freedom and impacts of globalization and dynamics of displacement in his unparallel<br>style. Amitav not only describes the realistic picture of certain sections of the society<br>and narrates their struggle to overcome their pathetic situation in order to overcome<br>their humiliation. He focuses on the fight of the subalterns for their cultural and social<br>identity and their tussle to move them from margin to the centre. Amitav’s innovative<br>textual experiments offered new insights and interpret the complexity of colonial and<br>postcolonial domains. The present paper tries to focus on the subalternity in his select<br>novels viz In An Antique Land, The Glass Palace and The Hungry Tide. </p>