Ghosh, Amitav

Drawing on recent interdisciplinary scholarship on the sense of place, this dissertation examines how the literary landscapes of formerly colonized countries embody colonial and post-colonial history. The project focuses on the ways in which specific material places both preserv…

This dissertation argues for a reconceptualization of the 1947 Partition of India as the occurrence of a historical trauma. In contrast to the story of the Partition as an epiphenomenal event of independence, I suggest that the division of British India into the new nations of I…

This study examines the trauma of the partition in Indian fictions, mainly of the last two decades. Until recently this trauma was thought to derive almost exclusively from the enormous violence provoked by the partition of 1947. This study argues that the political division is …

This dissertation contests the idea that environmental justice discourse emerges solely from the United States. It creates dialogue between texts that represent a traditional American environmental justice frame and those that depict situations of environmental injustice outside…