LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 12 December 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Imagery in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines

Mrs. R.Malathi, M.A., M.Phil.

Abstract

Amitav Ghosh occupies a rather curious place in the landscape of contemporary English language authors from the Indian subcontinent. A noted novelist, an essayist and a nonfiction writer, Amitav Ghosh’s standing in the realms of literature is truly unparalleled. His stories move restlessly across countries, continents and even oceans. His narratives always reflect the wisdom of an Oxford scholar. His views and opinions are meticulously researched and learned. In every book, an epic scale of scholarship is directly discernable. His second novel The Shadow Lines resists classification. Everyone in this novel, in fact, hovers over the shadow lines between imagination and reality. Imagery helps to create a specific atmosphere/mood/tone, in accordance to the authors' choice. Imagery is a huge source from which readers can infer the authors' intentions and opinions. Oftentimes, imagery characterizes the work itself. Those characters are realistic portrayals from life itself. In this paper we will examine how the live imageries give expression to the theme of illusion and reality through different characters.

The Shadow Lines

Amitav Ghosh’s novel, The Shadow Lines, focuses on the trauma of individual lives caught in a changing world where new nations are formed and old identities have to be arbitrarily replaced by new notions of national identity, causing cultural and physical displacements from old contexts into new ones. In the contemporary era, the problem gets aggravated as further displacements take place with travel and immigration, bringing about their own kinds of alienation and heartbreak.

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Mrs. R. Malathi, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Candidate
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Erode Sengunthar Engineering College
Thudupathi 638 057
Erode District
TamilNadu
India

Research Scholar (Part Time)
Post Graduate and Research Department of English
Government Arts College
Coimbatore-638 046
Tamilnadu, India
malathir221@gmail.com
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