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... not so much of mastery, but of pragmatics. With examples drawn from his own works The Shadow Lines and The Hungry Tide , the author ultimately questions the linguistic determinism of national literary paradigms. Indeed, the uncanniest effect of the Anthropocene is that we are now moving so fast...

... . Web. < http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1972/mar/09/the-real-thing/?insrc=toc >. Felski Rita . Uses of Literature . Oxford : Blackwell , 2008 . Print . Fletcher Lisa . “Reading the Postcolonial Island in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide.” Island Studies Journal...

... the rising tide, she uses the image of an organized hungry pack of wild animals—hunting felines, attacking, bounding, devouring, destroying—in whose presence the fragile shore has no chance and humans are reduced to insignificance, overtaken by events beyond their control. As is the case with Devi...

... it comes to the English language, bastardized beyond recognition. Roy has remarked that she thinks of her novel as a Bangla novel in English much like Ghosh does in the essay in which he discusses how in his novel Hungry Tide he tried to capture the tone and rhythm of the syncretic language he discovered...

... of the two narratives gradually uncovers the diasporic protagonist’s estrangement from her family and lack of kinship with fellow Zimbabweans, as seen in the first-person narrator’s statement that “ what’s in a name is non-recognition as lineages are cast away to be built anew ” (66). As tides of memory rise...

... Wole Soyinka Once upon a ship-(of-state)-wreck, where The sun had shrunk the world at last to a true Stature of deserving—the ant for unit— I lay on earth tide-flung, obtruding Miles of heart and mind, an alien hulk 5 Into a thumb assemblage. My feet Were scaled...

..., the rhythms of women’s work in the home are not wholly attuned to the measurement of the clock. The mother of young children has an imperfect sense of time and attends to other human tides. She has not yet altogether moved out of the conventions of ‘pre-industrial’ society.” As Carol Watts points out (15...

... linear progression, the effect of the new literary style is to counteract the aesthetic sense inspired by organic thinking. Symptomatically, Joyce’s stylistic tide replicates what Darwin posited as a volatile evolutionary development vis-à-vis the smooth evolutionary gradualism of Haeckel’s...