Department of English

Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

The Hungry Tide

(2004)

Amitav Ghosh

(July 11, 1956 – )

Notes

First published in Great Britain by John Murray Publishers in 2004.

Review Sheet

Characters

Bon Bibi – (223)

Sir Daniel Hamilton, S'Daniel – (49);

Fokir Mondol, Forkirchand Mondol – 

Horen Naskor –

Kanai Dutt – 

Kusum – mother of Fokir

Mej-da – 

Moyna Mondol –

Nilima Bose –

Nirmal Bose –

Nogen –

Piyali Roy –

Tutul Mondol –

Places 

Canning –

Emilybari –

Garjontola –

Gosaba –

Lusibari –

Time 

November 2002 – 

Sample Student Responses to Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide

Response 1: 

Reference

Editions

Ghosh, Amitav. The Hungry Tide. Delhi: Ravi Dayal, 2004. Print.

Ghosh, Amitav. The Hungry Tide. London: John Murray, 2004. Print.

Interviews

Ghosh, Amitav. “The Hungry Tide.” Interview by Hasan Ferdous and Horst Rutsch. UN Chronicle 42.4 (2005–2006): 48–52. Academic Search Complete. Web. 13 July 2012.

Reviews

Baleé, Susan. “Textual Pleasures and Pet Peeves.” The Hudson Review 58.4 (2006): 689–99. JSTOR. Web. 13 July 2012.

Chaudhuri, Supriya.  “A Sense of Place.”  Biblio 9.7-8 (July-August 2004): 16–17. Print.

Cheuse, Alan. "Review of The Hungry Tide, by Amitav Ghosh." World Literature Today 80.2 (2006): 22. JSTOR. Web. 2012.

Gopalakrishnan, Amulya.  “A Praise Book of the Tides.”  Books.  Frontline 21.18  Aug. 28–Sep. 10, 2004.  30 Aug. 2004. <http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2118/stories/20040910001107500.htm>.

Critical Essays

Anand, Divya. “Words on Water: Nature and Agency in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide.” Concentric 34.1 (2008): 21–44. Web. 13 July 2012.

Buell, Lawrence. “Ecocriticism: Some Emerging Trends.” Qui Parle 19.2 (2011): 87–115. Project Muse. Web. 13 July 2012. [one paragraph on The Hungry Tide as a postcolonial ecocritical fixture/favorite]

Heise, Ursula K. “Journeys through the Offset World: Global Travel Narratives and Environmental Crisis.” SubStance 41.1.127 (2012): 61–76. Project Muse. Web. 13 July 2012. [mentions The Hungry Tide only in passing]

Marzec, Robert P. “Speaking Before the Environment: Modern Fiction and the Ecological.” Modern Fiction Studies 55.3 (2009): 419–442. Project Muse. Web. 13 July 2012.

Nayar, Pramod K. “The Postcolonial Uncanny: The Politics of Dispossession in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide.” College Literature 37.4 (2010): 88119. Project Muse. Web. 13 July 2012.

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