The Hungry Tide and Ecocosmopolitanism...
The Hungry Tide The Hungry Tide and Eco-cosmopolitanism The Hungry Tide is by common consensus considered to be one of the important fictions of post-Independence literary enterprise and by extension the best of Ghosh’s creative manoeuvre. The various thematic aspects assimilated in the novel is an indicator of Ghosh’s unregulated attention towards diverse and multitude perspectives which automatically included the scope of postcolonial study and also permitted other tropes as related to ecocriticism, migration, diaspora, myths, and more recurrent issues as of class discrimination, geo-political questions, and not least the inclusion of postmodern techniques of eco-narrative, decentralisation, the question of time, space, and identity and so on. The Hungry Tide is a novel about settlers in the precarious tide country of the Sundarbans who have to contend with the government’s wildlife project, with the tides that erase and create land with alarming frequency, with the tigers and spiri...