History, Narrative, and Testimony in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (274 pages)
History, Narrative, and Testimony in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction -- History, Narrative, and Testimony in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction -- Contents -- Chronological Bioprofile -- Introduction: Beyond Borders and Boundaries -- 1. Diasporic Predicaments: An Interview with Amitav Ghosh -- 2. Unlikely Encounters: Fiction and Scientific Discourse in the Novels of Amitav Ghosh -- 3. The Glass Palace: Reconnecting Two Diasporas -- 4. Resignifying "Coolie": Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace -- 5. The Girmitiyas' Journey in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies -- 6. Shadows and Mysteries: Illusions of Imagined Communities in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines -- 7. Amitav Ghosh's "Imagined Communities": The Hungry Tide as a Possible "Other" World -- 8. Sharing Landscapes and Mindscapes: Ethics and Aesthetics in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome -- 9. Language and Ethics in The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh -- 10. Ghosh, Language, and The Hungry Tide -- 11. Intertexuality in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide -- 12. "Dwelling in Travel": In An Antique Land and the Making of a Resisting Post-Colonial History -- 13. The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium and Discovery: A Tour de Force Transcending Genres -- 14. Inner Circles and the Voice of the Shuttle: Native Forms and Narrative Structure in Amitav Ghosh's The Circle of Reason -- Contributors -- Index.
Comprehensive overview of the work of Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh.