Sankaran History, Narrative, and Testimony in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4182-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Comprehensive overview of the work of Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sankaran, Chitra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chronological Bioprofile

Introduction: Beyond Borders and Boundaries
Chitra Sankaran

1. Diasporic Predicaments: An Interview with Amitav Ghosh
Chitra Sankaran

2. Unlikely Encounters: Fiction and Scientific Discourse in the Novels of Amitav Ghosh
Lou Ratté

3. The Glass Palace: Reconnecting Two Diasporas
Nandini Bhautoo-Dewnarain

4. Resignifying “Coolie”: Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace
Shanthini Pillai

5. The Girmitiyas’ Journey 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 Communities”: 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. “Dwelling 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

List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Chitra Sankaran is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at National University of Singapore and is the author of Myth Connections: The Use of Hindu Myths and Philosophies in R. K. Narayan and Raja Rao, Revised Edition.