The Empire of Opium: Colonial Exploitation in Sea of Poppies and the Silences of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Author: Dr. Tarun Kanti Halder DOI Link : https://doi.org/10.70798/Bijmrd/020500024 Abstract : Opium’s complicated relationship to pleasure, addiction, commerce, and colonialism has made it a prominent topic in literary and historical discourse. Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies (2008) and Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) feature two different but related depictions of opium. …
