Sökning: "Amitav Ghosh."

Hittade 3 uppsatser innehållade orden Amitav Ghosh..

  1. 1. Att föreställa sig världen En jämförande studie mellan två världslitteraturteorier

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Författare :Alice Berggren; [2020-01-21]
    Nyckelord :world literature; Pheng Cheah; Warwick Research Collective; world system theory; worlding; capitalism; intratextual; extratextual; multidimensionality;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis takes interest in a theoretical turn in world literature studies; from a focus on extratextual aspects, such as the global circulation of literary works, to intratextual aspects, such as literary works’ world-reflecting and world-creating abilites. I analyze two recent theories within this turn: the Warwick Research Collective’s Combined and Uneven Development and the postcolonial researcher Pheng Cheah’s What is a World?. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Cooperative Apocalypse : Hostile Geological Forces in N. K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth Trilogy

    Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Författare :Felicia Stenberg; [2020]
    Nyckelord :The Broken Earth trilogy; N. K. Jemisin; Bruno Latour; Agency; ANT; Geostory; Donna Haraway; Chthulucene; Sympoeisis; Become-with; Response-Ability; Anthropocene; Anthropocentrism; Posthumanism; Climate Fiction; Collectivism; Gaia Theory; Amitav Ghosh.;

    Sammanfattning : In this thesis I explore the place of the human in the Anthropocene, and our relationship to the Earth through an analysis of N. K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth trilogy. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The Subaltern's Power of Silence and Alternative history : Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome

    Magister-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Författare :Khandoker Farzana; [2016]
    Nyckelord :postcolonialism; subaltern; silence; voice; alternative history; alternative modernity; science; counter-science; posthuman;

    Sammanfattning : Amitav Ghosh's novel The Calcutta Chromosome is a science-fiction which deals with subalter voice. In this paper I have discussed that how Ghosh has written an alternative hisory for the suabltern and how he establishes a connection between subaltern and the science-fictional term, the posthuman. LÄS MER