Island and Refugees

Exploring the Intersections of Environmental and Social Justice in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island

Abstract

Gun Island by amitav ghosh investigates problems of race, migration and ecology. using a postcolonial ecocritical perspective, one might examine how the author challenges the western anthropocentric notion of human subjectivity that has been created by modernism and historical processes by presenting nonhuman actors. This study examines how ghosh uses environmental themes to discover subversive agreements in the book and narrative content of the
postcolonial nonhuman subject matter. This research paper examines how the context of postcolonialism has disrupted the way borders are constructed. it does this by projecting an otherworldly possibility through an immaterial myth that suggests there exists an interconnectedness between living and nonliving things. The work of amitav ghosh also provides a thorough examination through the myth of manasa devi through the invisible borders. This article centres on the social economic, political and climate factors that contribute to the outcomes of the unauthorised movement of the impoverished individuals depicted in the text taken for research.