The Layers And Dimensions Of Diaspora In Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide

Abstract

This paper proposes to interrogate and the depiction of the different layers and dimensions of the diasporic identity by Amitav Ghosh’s novel, The Hungry Tide. While doing so, this paper also questions the validity of the straightforward notion of diaspora as being related to the event of migration outside the boundary of one’s own home nation.