Transplanting Seeds in Diasporic Literature: Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table and Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke
This paper examines the notion of transplantation on the literal level and as a metaphor, geographies of displacement being illustrated by the metaphor of botany. Ondaatje and Ghosh literally revisit the word “diaspora,” the scattering of seeds, through a reassessment of botany, and the power and mo...
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| Dans: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Auteur principal: | Delmas, Catherine |
| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
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