Cartographies of Difference: Inventing Difference in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines

The central image in Amitav Ghosh’s novel The Shadow Lines (1988) is that of the “upside-down house”. The “upside-down house” was a product of a notional exercise undertaken by Thamma, the narrator’s grandmother, when she was a young girl. When their ancestral home was partitioned with a wall due to...

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Published in:IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities
Main Author: Suravi Roy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The International Academic Forum 2022-12-01
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Online Access:https://iafor.org/journal/iafor-journal-of-arts-and-humanities/volume-9-issue-2/article-2/