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Volume 02, Issue 6

Published on: June 2026

TIDAL ARTISTRY: POSTHUMAN CREATIVE PRACTICES AND THE DE-CENTERING OF THE HUMAN IN AMITAV GHOSH’S THE HUNGRY TIDE

Sivapriya K B Hiba Thaslin

Nilgiri College of Arts and Science, Thaloor
DOI:https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i6.274

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This paper investigates the “tidal” ontology of Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide, which argues that the novel functions as a posthumanist manifesto that effectively de-centers the human subject. In the volatile environment of the Sundarbans, where the landscape is in a state of perpetual flux, the traditional boundaries between nature and culture, human and animal, and land and water dissolve. This study employs the concept of “Tidal Artistry” to describe the creative agency of the ecosystem itself, a force that “sculpts” human identity and dictates the terms of survival through a process of constant erasure and rewriting. Drawing upon the theories of Gilles Deleuze, Rosi Braidotti, and Donna Haraway, the paper analyses the multispecies entanglements between the scientist Piya, the fisherman Fokir, and the Irrawaddy dolphins. It explores how technological mediation (GPS and sonar) and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) coalesce to form a posthuman subjectivity. Ultimately, the paper posits that Ghosh’s narrative provides a blueprint for an “Environmental Posthumanism” that replaces the myth of human mastery with a profound acknowledgment of ecological interdependency and “making-with” the non-human world.

Key Words: Posthumanism, Tidal Agency, Multispecies Ethnography, Anthropocene, De-centering, New Materialism, Ecotones, Sympoiesis.

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B, S. K. & Thaslin, H. (2026). Tidal Artistry: Posthuman Creative Practices and the De-Centering of the Human in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide. International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management, <i>02</i>(6). https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i6.274

B, Sivapriya, and Hiba Thaslin. "Tidal Artistry: Posthuman Creative Practices and the De-Centering of the Human in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide." International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management, vol. 02, no. 6, 2026, pp. . doi:https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i6.274.

B, Sivapriya, and Hiba Thaslin. "Tidal Artistry: Posthuman Creative Practices and the De-Centering of the Human in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide." International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management 02, no. 6 (2026). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i6.274.

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