Multicultural and Multilingual Aspects in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies

P. Pradeep; Dr. R. Poli Reddy

Vol-7,Issue-1,January - February 2022

Author: P. Pradeep, Dr. R. Poli Reddy

Keywords: Language, culture, multilingual, multicultural, hybridity, pidgin.

Abstract: Sea of Poppies is the novel by Amitav Ghosh which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008. It is the first part of his Ibis trilogy, a saga set just before the Opium Wars. All the characters in this novel blend with the people of all races and languages run through the stories, supplying the novel with a plenty of words and terms from East-Asian, Pacific and pidgin languages that turn the trilogy into a unique cocktail of multicultural and multilingual ecriture. Through this reaserch paper , I aim to highlight the cultural and linguistic diversity and present how Ghosh is able to create a cultural and linguistic hybrid space.

Article Info: Received: 16 Dec 2021; Received in revised form: 01 Feb 2022; Accepted: 08 Feb 2022; Available online: 17 Feb 2022

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.71.35