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Title:

History, narrative, and testimony in Amitav Ghosh's fiction / edited by Chitra Sankaran.

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

℗♭2012

Description:

xxxii, 239 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Ghosh, Amitav,--1956---Criticism and interpretation.
Literature and history.
Indic literature (English)--20th century--History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Other Authors:

Chitra Sankaran, 1959-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

1. Diasporic predicaments : an interview with Amitav Ghosh / Chitra Sankaran -- 2. Unlikely encounters : fiction and scientific discourse in the novels of Amitav Ghosh / Lou Ratt©♭ -- 3. 'The glass palace' : reconnecting two diasporas / Nandini Bhautoo-Dewnarain -- 4. Resignifying "Coolie" : Amitav Ghosh's ' The glass palace' / Shanthini Pillai -- 5. The 'Girmitiyas'' Juorney in Amitav Ghosh's 'Sea of poppies' / Rajesh Rai and Andrea Marion Pinkney -- 6. Shadows and mysteries : illusions of imagined communities in Amitav Ghosh's 'The shadow lines' / Crystal Taylor -- 7. Amitav Ghosh's "Imagined communites" : 'the hungry tide' as a possible "other" world / Federica Zullo -- 8. Sharing landscapes and mindscapes : ethics and aesthetics in Amitav Ghosh's 'The calcutta chromosome' / Chitra Sankaran -- 9. Language and ethics in 'the hungry tide' by Amitav Ghosh / Tuomas Huttunen -- 10. Ghosh, language, and 'the hungry tide' / Ismail S. Talib -- 11. Intertexuality in Amitav Ghosh's 'the hungry tide' / Shao-Pin Luo -- 12. "Dwellin in travel" : 'in an antique land' and the making of a resisting post-colonial history / Tammy Vernerey -- 13. 'The calcutta chromosome : a novel of fevers, delirium and discovery -- a tour de force' transcending genres / Ruby S. Ramraj -- 14. Inner circles and the voice of the shuttle : native forms and narrative structure in Amitav Ghosh's 'The circle of reason' / Robbie B.H. Goh.

ISBN:

1438441819 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781438441818 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)726150292

LCCN:

2011019401

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)