This paper attempts to show Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace as a tale of impoverishment of the South Asian region, and its populace. The novel tries to establish colonialism, along with its imperialistic motives and the Christianising impulse..., as an ecocidal project. It is proposed that the pre-colonial symbiotic relations between man and nature were altered by the capitalist modernity introduced by the British colonists. The cultural plurality and biodiversity of these bioregions gave way

in the 1930s. The analysis shows that both juvenile novels represented Thai-Japanese relationship as a friend and cooperate to protect Siam from invasion of foreign enemies, which imply to western colonial countries to seek benefits from Siam.... The representation of Thai-Japanese relationships in both juvenile novels reflected that Japan s point of view to Thai in the 1930s is similar. It shaped by Japanese colonialism or nanshinron in Japanese, the southern expansion doctrine, encouraged the Japanese

16 who lived in Vietnam during the colonial period. The narrator recalled those days when she met a Chinese man with whom she later had a love affair. Recollecting the past enables her not only to reminisce about the first love but also to reconsider... and protagonist, and adds a sense of the past to the narrative. Incidents and spatio-temporal dimensions in the novel correspond with some details in the autobiography of the French author who spent her youth in Vietnam during the colonial times.

during the period of colonialism in South Africa, postcolonial tourism, whale conservation, and the challenge of global animal protection in relation to environmental justice. Throughout the study, the overlapping interests, as well as tension

Gender is a quintessential issue in Asian American literature, since Asian Americans are seen as weak with feminine qualities, according to the Western colonial concept. This paper examines Korean American women’s power through an analysis... of patriarchy in Korea and rescues herself and her family with her intelligence, determination, power, and bravery. As an Asian woman who successfully resettles in the United States, her achievement refutes the Western colonial concept which double-feminizes

.” On the other hand, “Wilderness Tips” is about Canada, about what it is like to be or to become Canadian, whether as direct descendants of the original colonial settlers or as immigrants, about Canadian history from colonial settler days to decolonization

Bonded labor or bonded slavery and bonded prostitution in India is a legacy left by British colonialism. Under this system, a person has to fall into servitude to whomever he or she has loaned money from with no means of repaying that debt... moneylenders. Unable to repay the debt, they become bonded laborers and bonded prostitutes and are seriously exploited and abused. Imaginary Maps serves as a channel through which the tribal voice is heard, depicting the relationship between colonialism

Achebe’s (1958) classic novel, Things Fall Apart, is the first African novel to portray Igbo culture and give a detailed history of pre-colonial and colonial incursion into Africa. It is the position of this essay that as the novel provides insights... into the culture, politics, economy and history of pre-colonial and colonial periods, it would also offer a reading of the environmental perspectives of these periods.This essay employs both sociological and environmental justice approaches in its investigation

the palimpsestuous relation of the two series, contending that the Siri Paiboun series operates as a site where colonial mimicry deviates from and later disrupts the authority of colonial discourse epitomized by the convention of French police novels..., to delegitimize its colonial authority by questioning the status of Simenon’s series as a model of roman policier, and, second, to criticize the Lao dysfunctional judicial system while his Belgian predecessor seeks to endorse the institutional authority

the situation in their overseas colonies when the Spanish empire finally began to see it decline. Melchor’ s descriptions cover the three main elements of Buddhism: Buddha, the Buddhist doctrines and the Sangha community. This evidence is considered one