Destiny and chance in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island (2019) A narrative fable for an era of chaos and of climate risks
- Publication type: Journal article
- Journal: Cahiers de littérature française
2023, n° 22. Déclinaisons du risque : pour une archéologie des imaginaires littéraires des XXe et XXIe siècles - Author: McIntosh-Varjabédian (Fiona)
- Pages: 173 to 189
- Journal: Studies in French Literature
The article studies how Amitav Ghosh applies the new literary program he presented in his essay The Great Derangement in his 2019 novel Gun Island. His aim is to create a new form of novels based on myth, accumulation of improbable events and irony to show how normal (literary) expectations are disarrayed by climate risk and chaotic disorder.
- CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
- ISBN: 978-2-406-16083-0
- EAN: 9782406160830
- ISSN: 2430-8293
- DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-16083-0.p.0173
- Publisher: Classiques Garnier
- Online publication: 01-24-2024
- Periodicity: Annual
- Language: French
- Keyword: novel, fiction, climate change, improbability, risk
