![]() ![]() With the erasure of the boundaries of language, class and caste among these migrants, they replaced the notion of authentic, discrete national cultures with a shared openness to the world, espousing a utopian belief in a trans-racial human collectivity. ![]() The paper tries to unravel how the novel presents the emergence of reconstituted families within contexts of domination and resistance. The ethics of compearance defiantly resists the instruments of power, colonial or otherwise, to orchestrate divisions and exclusions through its politics of immediate conjunction, conjuncture, coalition and collaboration. The Ibis becomes a space where cross-cultural caste, class, gender, and national collaborations blur all sorts of boundaries and enable the formation of new alliances. This paper seeks to shed light on the formation of communities in a transnational space in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies which chronicles the lives of a motley group of people who, after many upheavals, board the Ibis. ![]()
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