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This concluding chapter brings together the main conclusions derived from analysing Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy from a transoceanic perspective. It concludes that the trilogy, as analysed with the tenets of maritime criticism, eschews the terracentrism that often characterises postcolonial thought and historiography and reveals the political possibilities of maritime boundaries as opposed to the parochialism of the nation-state. The chapter summarises the main arguments developed in the analysis of the trilogy in relation to broader aspects of global history, cosmopolitanism and globalisation. Among other concerns, I argue that, in the light of the analysis sustained in previous chapters, the Ibis trilogy allows for a diachronic reading between Indian Ocean transoceanic connections in the nineteenth century and the globalised neo-liberal present.
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Martín-González, JJ. (2021). Conclusion. In: Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy . Maritime Literature and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77056-3_6
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