아미타브 고시의 『그림자 선』에 나타난 인도 내셔널리즘과 포스트식민 윤리

Abstract

This paper examines the ways in which Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines portrays the lives of its main characters in terms of ethics and freedom in the aftermath of the partition of India in 1947 and the partition of Pakistan in 1971. Instead of focusing on the binary opposition between nationalism and cosmopolitanism, this research aims to redefine the notion of them, thus raising the need for a new concept of ethics against the background of the historical events in India. By comparing the main characters’ ethical practices in the postcolonial context, the paper shows how cosmopolitanism based on alternative imagination and ethical life can contribute to bringing about the possibility of reconciliation and solidarity between the first world and the third world.