AB  - This long review-essay considers Amitav Ghosh's The Nutmeg's Curse in the context of an authorial career in which Ghosh has insisted on placing the Indian Ocean basin at the centre of his critique the global environmental damage caused by the Anthropocene's violent extractive logic . It discusses the book's engagement with contemporary academic writing about colonialism and the more-than-human as Ghosh locates the origins of this "great derangement" in the Dutch East India Company's exploitation of the nutmeg-rich Banda Islands to make visible the long and programmatic history of racial violence at the heart of colonialism as a continuing ?warfare of a distinctive kind?. It critiques the book's silence on gender.
AU  - Falconer, D
DA  - 2021/12/02
JO  - Sydney Review of Books
PB  - Writing and Society Research Centre University of Western Sydney
PY  - 2021/12/02
TI  - A Dazzling Synthesis
Y1  - 2021/12/02
Y2  - 2026/05/25
ER  -