scholarly journals A study on change in behavioral pattern with reference to the select novels of Amitav Ghosh

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1189-1195
Author(s):  
Dr. Sreela.B, Et. al.
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Pattern ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Behavioral Patterns ◽  
Amitav Ghosh ◽  
Cultural Changes

This article is an attempt to illustrate the different ways through which culture gets transformed as a result of contact with other cultures. The desire to gain sociability forms ground for cultural changes such as accultration, assimilation, diffusion and other types of cultural changes. Amitav Ghosh is a prolific writer who occupies an invincible space among the national and also the international writers. Six of his novels are analysed to study the changes in the behavioral patterns of the characters in the novel. Cognition is a mighty factor that conditions the thoughts of every human. The desire to garner solidarity and establish sociability is the chief reason for cultural compromises. Therefore, Georg Simmel’s theory on sociabilities is taken into account to support this study.

Oil, Water, World, Wax, Mind: Jean Rolin’s Ormuz

2021 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-236
Author(s):  
Thangam Ravindranathan
Keyword(s):  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
World Order ◽  
The Novel ◽  
History Of The Novel ◽  
Amitav Ghosh ◽  
Modern Novel ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oil Water ◽  
Night And Day ◽  
Oil Tankers

Abstract This essay considers the unworldly setting of Jean Rolin’s novel Ormuz (2013), composed around the attempt by a shadowy character named Wax to swim across the Strait of Hormuz. This twenty-one-nautical-mile-wide stretch of sea separating Iran from the Arabian Peninsula, through which is shipped 35 percent of the world’s petroleum, is a waterway of the utmost geopolitical importance, its harbors built not for dreamy swimmers but for giant oil tankers and the elaborate maritime-military infrastructure assuring their passage. Such a setting would seem to stand as a bleak other to the novel as genre. Yet if one thinks of the history of the novel as inseparable from that of carbon capitalism (as Amitav Ghosh has argued), such a claim is reversed—this site where powerful strategic interests drive the flow of oil, capital, and power is the place of the continual making and unmaking, by night and day, of the world order, and thereby of the modern novel. The essay reflects on what Wax’s weird wager—as an emblem for a remarkable narrative wager—may owe to such intertexts as Google, Descartes’s Meditations, and Jules Verne’s Tour du monde, and argues for reading Ormuz as an ecological novel for our times.

scholarly journals Dwelling, Dispossession, and “Slow Violence” in the Time of Climate Change The Representation of Refugees in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide

Il Tolomeo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Pilia
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human History ◽  
Amitav Ghosh ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Slow Violence ◽  
The Sundarbans

In this essay, I will analyse the crucial issues of dwelling and dispossession concerning refugees in the novel The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh. Political and environmental displacement is addressed within the framework of ‘slow violence’ as proposed by the landmark work of Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2011). With the intention to define the Morichjhãpi refugees as a foreshadowing of the climate migrations involving the lives of the subalterns in South Asia, as argued by Brandon Jones (2018), the essay provides a historical background of the Morichjhãpi Massacre and studies the forced eviction narrated in the novel through the pages of Nirmal’s diary. Together with Kusum, the Marxist professor experiences the tragedy of the subalterns in the ever-changing ecosystem of the Sundarbans, bridging the gap between environmental and postcolonial categories while providing fruitful insights within the notions of human history and ecological deep time.

Application of EDM to Understand the Online Students' Behavioral Pattern

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 154-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Naito Mendes Bezerra ◽  
Márcia Terra da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Educational Data Mining ◽  
Learning Management Systems ◽  
Behavioral Pattern ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Behavioral Patterns ◽  
Limited Capacity ◽  
Online Access

In distance learning, the professor cannot see that the students are having trouble with a subject, and can fail to perceive the problem in time to intervene. However, in learning management systems (LMS's) a large volume of data regarding online access, participation and progress can be registered and collected allowing analysis based on students' behavioral patterns. As traditional methods have a limited capacity to extract knowledge from big volumes of data, educational data mining (EDM) arises as a tool to help teachers interpreting the behavior of students. The objective of the present article is to describe the application of educational data mining technics aiming to obtain relevant knowledge of students' behavioral patterns in an LMS for an online course, with 1,113 students enrolled. This paper applies two algorithms on educational context, decision tree and clustering, unveiling unknown relevant aspects to professors and managers, such as the most important examinations that contribute to students' approval as well as the most significant attributes to their success.

scholarly journals Transformation of English Language in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Zakiyah Tasnim
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
English Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Amitav Ghosh ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Language

With millions of non-native English language users, English has gained the position of ‘global language’ in the last century. English literature also has a significant number of non-native writers from around the world. While grasping their own cultures in English, these non-native writers have been transforming English language to a remarkable extent. On many occasions, these transformed varieties are recognised as versions of English language. This essay explores the notion of translingual writers and their use of English language, taking The Hungry Tide, a novel of the Indian translingual writer Amitav Ghosh, as an example. The novel is studied, along with the works of other researchers, with the sole focus on the transformation of English language in it. This study looks for the answers of two questions. They are: 1. How do the translingual writers justify their transformation of English language?; and 2. How is Amitav Ghosh transforming English language in The Hungry Tide and why is he doing it?

scholarly journals Analisis Wawasan Jender Perempuan pada Perspektif Keluarga

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 1426
Author(s):  
Sumiharti Sumiharti ◽  
Sainil Amral
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The Public ◽  
Family Perspective ◽  
The Family

The purpose of this research is to describe women's gender insight from a family perspective through the characterization structure in Fira Basuki's novel Atap. This research uses descriptive qualitative research methods, solving problems in a study by describing or interpreting objects in the form of social phenomena or events that are revealed through expressions. Through this research, researchers can describe data from the object of research related to aspects of women's gender insight from a family perspective through the characterization structure in Fira Basuki's novel Atap. These aspects consist of aspects of socio-cultural change through the family and aspects of violence in the family from a feminist point of view. The source of data in this reseaech is the novel Atap by Fira Basuki. The data in this research were obtained from words, sentences, or expressions contained in the novel which refer to aspects of socio-cultural change through the family and aspects of family violence from a feminist point of view. The results showed that in socio-cultural changes through the family, it was found that there was still a gender bias towards justice that was obtained by women. Gender bias is also found in the female characters Kunti, Jane and Mak Umah as a result of violence in the family from a feminist point of view. Based on the problems that arise in socio-cultural relations through the family, it should be addressed wisely and directed in the form of protection. For example, legal protection is made and the public understands the existing forms of legal protection.

Patterns of Binary Oppositions in Yousef Al-Mohaimeed’s Wolves of the Crescent Moon

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Laila M. Al-Sharqi
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Contemporary Novel ◽  
Binary Oppositions

Yousef Al-Mohaimeed’s Wolves of the Crescent Moon is a rich contemporary novel that deploys several effective narrative strategies and themes. Binary oppositions provide the novel’s most unifying thread. This paper examines how binary opposition is used as a structural device in the novel to explore the interplay between modernity and culture in Saudi Arabia by challenging previously unquestioned aspects of life in the contemporary society. The paper focuses on the manner in which binary oppositions inform the novel’s rhetoric of displacement, which becomes a driving force determining variation in values and notions within the privileged elite. Corresponding cultural changes emerge from this elite set, whose members pursue modernity in an exclusionary manner in their rapid assimilation into modernization. They appear incapable of understanding indigenous members of Saudi society who adjust less rapidly and who perceive changes in norms and traditions as evidence that the elite regard them as inferior ‘Others’.

scholarly journals THE MARGINALIZED ON THE MOVE: SEA OF POPPIES

2020 ◽  
pp. 97-102
Keyword(s):  
White Men ◽  
The Novel ◽  
British India ◽  
Amitav Ghosh ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Colonial Oppression

Ghosh always looks into the root causes that reflect the historical as well as anthropological facts to renegotiate the subaltern discourse from the perspective of conventional diaspora. The novel, Sea of Poppies is one of the works that discusses a welldesigned and societal constructed unprivileged mass who are oppressed and exploited subjects. The novel also highlights the lives of marginalized subalterns who are conditioned by the activities of the privileged people, economics and trade of the empire of the time. This chapter describes and portrays precisely how the present is shaped by British-India. The chapter also highlights how the colonialists have subdivided the present India into various sections. The novel also clearly presents how human and cultural destruction and decadence have taken place, which was caused due to imperialism. This statement applies to all the novels of Amitav Ghosh including Sea of Poppies. The novel also reveals colonial oppression caused by a few white men who are desperate to re-establish the trade of opium and indentured laborers in the place of slavery, which was abolished by them. As mentioned, Amitav Ghosh examines subaltern problems from the perspectives of anthropological as well as historical points of view. He renegotiates a discourse on sub-alternity from the point of transmittal diaspora through the European colonies. In the course of this novel, he tries to explore how this world is made of a few privileged people, masses of oppressed and exploited subjects. Apart from this he also discusses the lives of the marginalized sections conditioned and controlled by the movements of people and tradesmen of imperialism. Subsequently, the novel deals with the developments of the incidents that have been delineated in connection to the present and it being structured by the British-India. Further, he also pays special attention to portraying the human devastation and decadence caused by imperialism

scholarly journals The Connection between Teachers’ Attributional Style and Behavioral Patterns in Professional Conflicts

2020 ◽  
pp. 84-92
Author(s):  
В.И. Казаренков ◽  
Н.С. Оськин
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Attributional Style ◽  
Prognostic Value ◽  
Behavioral Pattern ◽  
Behavioral Patterns ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Professional Interaction ◽  
Professional Conflicts

В статье раскрываются целесообразность и прогностическая ценность атрибутивного подхода к изучению конфликтов в деловом взаимодействии преподавателей. На основе анализа теоретических концепций обосновывается, что индивидуальная склонность преподавателя типично использовать внутренний или внешний вектор атрибуции определяет восприятие другого субъекта взаимодействия, в том числе и конфликтного, либо как потенциального партнера, либо как конкурента и тем самым опосредует выбор субъектом атрибуции соответствующей стратегии поведения в конфликте. Представлены результаты эмпирического исследования, где раскрывается содержание и направленность корреляционных взаимосвязей между оптимистичностью в достижениях и во взаимоотношениях с другими, стабильностью как параметрами стиля атрибуции личности и стратегиями компромисса, сотрудничества, приспособления, избегания и соперничества как паттернами поведения преподавателя в конфликтном деловом взаимодействии. Результаты исследования представляют практическую ценность для психологов и специалистов учреждений образования при разработке профилактических и коррекционных мероприятий, направленных на управление конфликтами в педагогических коллективах. The article treats the relevance and the prognostic value of attributional approach to the investigation of conflicts in educators’ professional interaction. The analysis of theoretical concepts enables the author to conclude that educators’ individual inclination to use the inner or outer vectors of attribution defines the perception of other subjects of the interaction (including conflicting situations) as potential partners or as competitors and, therefore, influences the choice of a respective behavioral pattern. The article presents the results of an empirical research that reveals the content and the direction of correlated links between achievement-associated optimism, stability as a parameter of personal attribution and strategies of compromise, cooperation, adjustment, avoidance, competitiveness as behavioral patterns in a conflicting professional interaction. The results of the research are valid for psychologists and educators who develop prophylactic and correctional strategies aimed at the management of conflicts in pedagogical teams.

Imagery of Assert and Valor With Reference to Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace

2020 ◽  
pp. 208-215
Author(s):  
B. Arokia Lawrence Vijay
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Amitav Ghosh ◽  
Women In Literature ◽  
Unique Position ◽  
Wide Experience

Amitav Ghosh' contribution for the welfare of women in literature is notable. He has given a multifaceted picture of women in all his works. His women characters have occupied a unique position in the literary arena. He was able to picture a typical ground reality of women in different location and situations. He has given a wide experience to all his readers to explore different women characters from an ordinary woman to a woman who meet all challenges and succeed in life. He has typically pictured women with challenges and struggles they face in their day today life. This chapter aims to picture the strength and courage of women positive and progressive in the novel The Glass Place.

The Conflict Of Nation And Partition In Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 59-66
Author(s):  
P. Bhavani ◽  
Dr.M. Kannadhasan
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Amitav Ghosh ◽  
Cultural Milieu ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Anthropologist ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The City

Amitav Ghosh is a postmodernist writer. He is immensely influenced by the political and cultural milieu of post-independent India. Being a social anthropologist and having the opportunity of visiting alien lands, he comments on the present scenario, the world is passing through in his novels. Almost all the works of Amitav Ghosh reflected the theme of borders and boundaries among nations. The Shadow Lines is a highly innovative, complex and celebrated novel of Amitav Ghosh, published in 1988. The Shadow Lines is the novel deal exclusively with the consequences of the Partition and mainly concerned with the Partition on the Bengal border. It is important to note that Ghosh happens to be the only major Indian-English novelist who is preoccupied with the Bengal Partition. There was a collective expression of grief, a demonstration of all religions in which Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus alike to took part. In January 1964 Mu-I-Mubarak was recovered and the city of Srinagar erupted with joy. But soon after the recovery, riots broke out in Khulna and a few people were killed.

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