Abstract
This article argues that Amitav Ghosh’s non-fiction book The Nutmeg’s Curse illustrates the ways in which the proto-global entanglement of chaotic colonial forces, which proliferates across space and time, has played an important part in the current climate change. Ghosh imagines the Indian Ocean as a melting pot of rhizomatic energies of imperial aggression and local resistance, but also of new emerging life, with the agency of nature playing a very important part in the latter. I aim to show this in a combined Deleuzian, postcolonial, and ecocritical reading, with elements of chaos theory meant to provide possible interpretations to climate change phenomena in Ghosh’s narrative projection.
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Alexandru, Maria-Sabina Draga
(2023)
"Transhistorical Connectivities Around the indian Ocean: Western Colonialism and Climate Change in Amtav Ghosh's The Nutmeg's Curse,"
Kritika Kultura:
No.
41, Article 16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13185/1656-152x.2058
Available at:
https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss41/16
