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satu paul (she/her) on Nayar, Pramod K. “The Postcolonial Uncanny; The Politics of Dispossession in Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Hungry Tide.’” College Literature, vol. 37, no. 4, 2010, pp. 88–119, https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.2010.0011.
- This piece discusses how there is an indigenous canny and uses Fokir to represent that. The life that Fokir lives is traditional and he adapts to the changes that the Sundarbans go though instead of migrating to a stable area. Fokir represents a “other” life that people live when they either do not have a choice to relocate or want to stay in the area they are in.
Dahiya, Disha. “The Politics of Subalternity: A Postcolonial Analysis of the Subalternised Other through Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide.” International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences, vol. 8, no. 6, Dec. 2023. ijels.com, https://ijels.com/detail/the-politics-of-subalternity-a-postcolonial-analysis-of-the-subalternised-other-through-amitav-ghosh-s-the-hungry-tide/.
- The idea of the “other” is introduced which describes how Fokir, Kusum, Moyna and the Morichjhapi refugees represents them. Theyre a group of people usually forgotten and their life style is a forgotten one because of their low class even though Fokir’s knowledge of the islands is invaluable and something technology cannot understand.
Jaising, Shakti. “Fixity Amid Flux: Aesthetics and Environmentalism in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide.” ariel: A Review of International English Literature, vol. 46 no. 4, 2015, p. 63-88. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ari.2015.0028.
- This discusses how Fokir’s character makes Kanai, and Piya reevaluate their lives and see it from fokirs view as he is a normal person who has to earn to live as a fisherman. His way of life is unique to the both of them as his job and life both heavily revolve around each other and affect each other. Being a fisherman who is uneducated socially but educated in the way of nature.
Lekshmy, C. S. A. “Spatial Literary Theory in Amitav Ghosh’s the Hungry Tide.” New Literaria, vol. 4, no. 1, 2023, pp. 68-73. ProQuest, http://proxy.wexler.hunter.cuny.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/spatial-literary-theory-amitav-ghoshs-hungry-tide/docview/2778533488/se-2, doi:https://doi.org/10.48189/nl.2023.v04i1.009.
- Fokir is one with nature and the sea, he was born and raised on the island and connects to it more than the other characters. sense of belonging for a land where they are one with nature rather than the harsh lives of the city. judgement from nature as in kanai is the destroyer and fokir is one of the indigenous poeple who have adapted to the land and still live there instead of giving into capitalism.
Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
- “the river is in his veins”(203)
- “It’s all inside here. I’ve told it to
him so often that the words have become a part of him” (206)
White, Laura A. “Novel Vision: Seeing the Sunderbans through Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Hungry Tide.’” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 20, no. 3, 2013, pp. 513–31. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44087261. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
- page 13, fokirs connection to the nature and the river compared to the scientific life that piya has. the idea of “caste” is presented to show the lives each of them live and how it differs so drastically.
Das, Saswat S. “Home and Homelessness in ‘The Hungry Tide’: A Discourse Unmade.” Indian Literature, vol. 50, no. 5 (235), 2006, pp. 179–85. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23340744. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
- The idea of home is presented, The Sundarbans is a home to such that adapt to it but unstable for poeple who live the modern life. Fokir is the fisherman who adapts and home for him is the river but it can be taken away and he could be left homeless anytime that he cannot prep for.
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