Water Image and Environmental Imagination: An Econarratological Reading of The Hungry Tide

Jing Wang

doi:10.6918/IJOSSER.202506_8(6).0003

Authors

Jing Wang

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6918/IJOSSER.202506_8(6).0003

Keywords:

Amitav Ghosh; The Hungry Tide; Econarratology; Storyworld; Environmental imagination.

Abstract

Amitav Ghosh is an excellent modern Indian novelist in English writing. His novel The Hungry Tide, published in 2004, is an excellent novel that has won many honors for Ghosh. This thesis aims to take an econarratological reading of The Hungry Tide by analyzing how image catalyze the immersion of readers in the site-specific environmental imaginations, thus helping readers understand the natural and socio-historical environment in the Sundarbans better.

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