Chasing a Moving Target: Environmental Justice in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
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In Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide (2004) are the stories of humans and animals, who suffer the consequences of British colonialism, state violence, and even well-intentioned conservationist movements. Especially prominent is the story of the indigenous population of humans and tigers in the islands of the Sundarbans, whose well-being is pit against one another so that justice for humans leads to a neglect of tigers, and likewise, justice for tigers leads to a dismissal of humans. Against this dichotomized politics, I argue that Ghosh aims to be just to both by delivering a justice narrative, for which Ghosh writes in a form that I will argue resembles a chase after a moving target, because justice in the Sundarbans is a highly mobile notion that necessitates a storytelling that traverses the local, the national, and the global, and involves multigenerational histories and multispecies relations. Demonstrating how this chase after justice and just storytelling result in a form that is dynamic, intersecting, and multifocal, I suggest that the arc of the narrative in The Hungry Tide delineates a movement toward totality, wherein humans, animals, and the environment form ever-expanding relationships of interdependence and conflict.
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In Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide (2004) are the stories of humans and animals, who suffer the consequences of British colonialism, state violence, and even well-intentioned conservationist movements. Especially prominent is the story of the indigenous population of humans and tigers in the islands of the Sundarbans, whose well-being is pit against one another so that justice for humans leads to a neglect of tigers, and likewise, justice for tigers leads to a dismissal of humans. Against this dichotomized politics, I argue that Ghosh aims to be just to both by delivering a justice narrative, for which Ghosh writes in a form that I will argue resembles a chase after a moving target, because justice in the Sundarbans is a highly mobile notion that necessitates a storytelling that traverses the local, the national, and the global, and involves multigenerational histories and multispecies relations. Demonstrating how this chase after justice and just storytelling result in a form that is dynamic, intersecting, and multifocal, I suggest that the arc of the narrative in The Hungry Tide delineates a movement toward totality, wherein humans, animals, and the environment form ever-expanding relationships of interdependence and conflict.
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