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(Re)inventing a People on the Sea: Instances of Creolization in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies

While the East India Company made huge profits from the opium trade between its Indian dominion and China in the 1830s, many people in the colony, Indians and Europeans alike, felt their future was hopeless. Ruined by the compulsory cultivation of opium to the detriment of traditional agriculture th...

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Main Author:	Mulla, Ahmed
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Language:	Anglais
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Subjects:	identité mer engagisme pouvoir colonisation migration diaspora diversité hybridité créolité Ghosh Amitav identity sea creolization indenture system power colonization diversity hybridity
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spelling	openedition-oai:revues.org:angles_1156 https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.1156 urn:doi:10.4000/angles.1156 en https://journals.openedition.org/angles/1156 2020-07-16T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/9mzi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (Re)inventing a People on the Sea: Instances of Creolization in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies Angles Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2274-2042 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/angles Mulla, Ahmed identité mer engagisme pouvoir colonisation migration diaspora diversité hybridité créolité Ghosh Amitav identity sea creolization indenture system power colonization migration diaspora diversity hybridity Ghosh Amitav While the East India Company made huge profits from the opium trade between its Indian dominion and China in the 1830s, many people in the colony, Indians and Europeans alike, felt their future was hopeless. Ruined by the compulsory cultivation of opium to the detriment of traditional agriculture that guaranteed self-reliance, or condemned by social prejudice, men and women were left with no other option than to seek a future elsewhere. Forced to share a confined place during a lengthy boat trip to an unknown destination in the Indian Ocean, people of opposed social and cultural backgrounds had to adjust to the unwritten laws of a community formed by chance. The characters of Amitav Ghosh's historical novel, Sea of Poppies, belong to the early waves of indentured workers that traveled throughout the Indian Ocean in the hope of a less arduous future. Notwithstanding their individual fate, Ghosh’s narrative shows that the ship constitutes a transitory “society” where each one has to re-negotiate his or her relationship to diversity. Alors que la Compagnie des Indes Orientales réalisait d'énormes profits grâce au commerce de l’opium entre sa colonie indienne et la Chine dans les années 1830, de nombreux habitants de la colonie, Indiens comme Européens, estimaient que leur avenir était sans espoir. Ruinés par la culture obligatoire de l’opium, établie au détriment d’une agriculture traditionnelle qui permettait l’autosuffisance, ou condamnés par les préjugés sociaux, les hommes et les femmes n’avaient pas d’autre alternative que de chercher un avenir ailleurs. Forcés de partager un endroit confiné pendant un long voyage en bateau vers une destination inconnue dans l'océan Indien, es passagers d’origines sociales et culturelles diverses ont dû s’adapter aux lois implicites d’une communauté formée par le hasard. Les personnages du roman historique d’Amitav Ghosh, Un Océan de pavots, font partie des premières vagues de travailleurs sous contrat qui ont traversé l’océan Indien en quête d’un avenir moins sombre. Indépendamment de leur destinée individuelle, le récit de Ghosh montre comment le navire incarne une « société » transitoire où chacun doit renégocier sa relation à la diversité.
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description	While the East India Company made huge profits from the opium trade between its Indian dominion and China in the 1830s, many people in the colony, Indians and Europeans alike, felt their future was hopeless. Ruined by the compulsory cultivation of opium to the detriment of traditional agriculture that guaranteed self-reliance, or condemned by social prejudice, men and women were left with no other option than to seek a future elsewhere. Forced to share a confined place during a lengthy boat trip to an unknown destination in the Indian Ocean, people of opposed social and cultural backgrounds had to adjust to the unwritten laws of a community formed by chance. The characters of Amitav Ghosh's historical novel, Sea of Poppies, belong to the early waves of indentured workers that traveled throughout the Indian Ocean in the hope of a less arduous future. Notwithstanding their individual fate, Ghosh’s narrative shows that the ship constitutes a transitory “society” where each one has to re-negotiate his or her relationship to diversity.
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title	(Re)inventing a People on the Sea: Instances of Creolization in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies
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(Re)inventing a People on the Sea: Instances of Creolization in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies

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