Bangladesh · Literature
The Hungry Tide
Amitav Ghosh · 2004
Ghosh maps the Sundarbans as a place where fisherfolk, conservationists, and refugees compete for an estuary that none of them control, exposing how romantic outsider narratives — eco-tourist, scientist, novelist — overwrite the speech of those who actually wade in the water. Like Jenkin, he treats dialect and silence as evidence in a class trial.