Women on The Margins: Subalternity in Sea of Poppies

Abstract

Amita Ghosh, a postcolonial novelist has dealt with modern postcolonial themes like migration, existential crises like alienation, loss of identity, rootlessness, displacement and hybridity with a historical vision.  Amita Ghosh is a novelist with extraordinary sense of history and place. His novels analyze the ideology of colonialism in its various shades. His multidimensional exposure of the problems related to immigrants and other socio- cultural problems with a humanist, cosmopolitan and postcolonial perception makes his fiction more interesting.  He deftly includes India and its integrity or identity as a nation in his fiction.  His SeaofPoppies is one of the best narratives of colonialism, Post- Colonialism and migration where a transnational diaspora mobilizes a collective identity of people dissolving their inessential ethos and milieus. Regarding his personal life, in an interview with World Literature Today, Ghosh clarifies, “my parents moved around a lot. I mean our home was in Calcutta in some way, but we also moved around a lot” (qtd in Rudramuni 218).