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30 novembre 2021
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Sabine Lauret, « Re-Mapping the Indian Ocean in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies », Commonwealth Essays and Studies, ID : 10.4000/ces.7870
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With Sea of Poppies (2008), Amitav Ghosh re-enacts the history of the first wave of the Indian diaspora. He gathers many different characters on a ship heading for Mauritius Island. On board they learn how to manage change and how to live with their fears and dreams. Crossing the Indian Ocean, the characters are bound to be caught in a translation movement which makes cultures and languages collide. This paper analyses how Ghosh redefines migrancy through the prism of indentured labour, illustrating how the scattering movement of the diaspora and the confluent drive of globalisation intersect.