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Volume 2 Issue 6 |
November 2015 |
| Aspect of Culture in Amitav Ghosh’s In an Antique Land | |
| Mr. A. Cruz Thivagaran, Assistant Professor, Department of English, JP College of Engineering, Aiykudy, Tenkasi, , |
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| Abstract | |
| Amitav Ghosh’s fiction conspicuously portrays the complexity of various cultures in the past as well as in the post-modern world. Majority of his novels represent his interpretation of history and the world and their influence on life and society. In an Antique Land is a strange conglomeration of history, social anthropology, memoir and travel writing weaved together by the novelist’s unique narrative art. The theme of cross-culturalism is firstly discussed in this novel with the character Ben Yiju. Ben Yiju was a Jewish merchant. Ben Yiju was a multi-faceted personality. He was a poet, calligrapher, businessman all rolled in to one. His slave was Bomma. The identity of the slave is portrayed by Ghosh with a careful piecing together of details in manuscripts rescued mainly from Geniza. | |
| Keywords | |
| Complex; Confusing; Identity; Treasures; Expatriate; Multilingual Culture. | |
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