摘要：Since its publication in 2005, The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh has been the privileged vantage point that has defined the intersection of the large fields of postcolonial studies and ecocriticism. 1 Its thematic concerns ¨C such as the interplay of land use, academic scientific enterprise, the long history of colonial settlement, state policies of environmental conservation, migration and refugee settlement, the overlapping of religious and state boundaries of Hindus and Muslims, subaltern and indigenous populations ¨C have made it the originary text for scholars to work through key debates and 'mutually constituted silences' 2 between the two influential fields of postcolonialism and ecocriticism
