LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:7 July 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

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Postmodernism in Amitav Ghosh’s Novels

Ab Majeed Dar, M.A., B.Ed., Ph.D.

Novels of Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta on 11th of July 1956. He grew up in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan), Sri Lanka, Iran, Egypt and India. After graduating from the University of Delhi, he went to Oxford to study Social Anthropology and received a Master of Philosophy and Ph. D. in 1982. In an Antique Land, the novel, which was published in 1983, was primarily the result of his work in Egypt. He has also been a journalist. He has written a number of novels such as Circle of Reason (1986), The Shadow Lines (1988), Calcutta Chromosome (1995), The Glass Palace (2000), The Hungry Tide (2004), Sea of Poppies (2008) and River of Smoke (2011) etc. He has also stayed in New York and taught at Columbia University. Anita Desai states that, “Ghosh has chosen to inhabit the real world rather than the artificial land of fantasy, and makes one watch his development as a novelist.”1 (169). His novel, The Glass Palace was an international bestseller that sold more than a half-million copies in Britain. The Hungry Tide has been sold for translation in twelve foreign countries and is also a bestseller abroad. Amitav Ghosh lives in New York City with his wife, Laura Riding and two children.

Radical Changes Brought in by Post-modernism

English fiction from 1990 onwards was influenced by the wave of postmodernism which brought radical changes in the Indian English fiction. Postmodernism was a continuation of modernism, a revolt against authority and significance. The remarkable change that was prominent in the novels published after the First World War, is called, modernism and the literature written in the late 20th century, especially after the Second World War, is considered postmodern literature.

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Ab Majeed Dar, M.A., B.Ed., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of English Language and Literature
Islamic University, Awantipora 192122
Jammu & Kashmir, India
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