Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island: A Study of Digital Diaspora and Displacement of Individuals in the Postcolonial Globalized Society
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Amitav Ghosh in his novel, Gun Island (2019), explored contemporary issues which are byproducts of postcolonial globalized society. Man is nomad. The history of mankind from the stone-age to the 21st century, is a journey from primitivism to modernity. During the Stone Age, and before the establishment of civilized society, people were migrating. The reasons for migration were very common. People used to move from one place to another in search of food and shelter. It was the period of ‘hunting’ for the sake food and shelter. Later on, natural disasters like flood, earthquake, tsunami, famine, and man-made calamities like war, violence, projects, division of territories, and rivalry between communities affected the migration and displacement of human population. During the colonial period, European countries established their colonies in Asian and African countries. In the 20th century, the majority of these African and Asian countries became independent. After decolonization, European power came to an end. However, the influence of Western knowledge, culture, languages, and life style is present in these decolonized countries. During colonization, poor people were migrated as workers, slaves, criminals or laborers to cultivate the land. This type of migration was imposed upon people from impoverished background. In postcolonial literature, the term ‘diaspora’ denotes the migration of people from one country to another. Displacement, loss of identity, multiculturalism, and hybridity are among the issues explored in diaspora literature which are the major perspectives of the study of postcolonial literature. In the present research article, an attempt is made to study digital diaspora and the displacement of individuals in Amitav Ghosh’s novel, Gun Island.
Author: Babasaheb Kangune
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7168090341