Amitav Ghosh's culture chromosome : anthropology, epistemology, ethics, space / edited by Asis De and Alessandro Vescovi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De, Asis, editor.

Vescovi, Alessandro, 1968- editor.

Series:

Cross/cultures ; 216.

Cross/cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English, 0924-1426 ; volume 216

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ghosh, Amitav, 1956---Criticism and interpretation.

Ghosh, Amitav.

Ghosh, Amitav, 1956-.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 341 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

"An Indian Bengali by birth, Amitav Ghosh has established himself as a major voice in what is often called world literature, addressing issues such as the post-colonial and neo-colonial predicaments, the plight of the subalterns, the origin of globalisation and capitalism, and lately ecology and migration. The volume is therefore divided according to the four domains that lie at the heart of Ghosh's writing practice: anthropology, epistemology, ethics and space. In this volume, a number of scholars from all over the world have come together to shed new light on the works and poetics of Amitav Ghosh according to the epistemic frameworks that form the bedrock of his fiction. Contributors: Safoora Arbab, Carlotta Beretta, Lucio De Capitani, Asis De, Lenka Filipova, Letizia Garofalo, Swapna Gopinath, Evelyne Hanquart-Turner, Sabine Lauret-Taft, Carol Leon, Kuldeep Mathur, Fiona Moolla, Sambit Panigrahi, Madhsumita Pati, Murari Prasad, Luca Raimondi, Pabitra Kumar Rana, Ilaria Rigoli, Sneharika Roy, John Thieme, Alessandro Vescovi"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Anthropology

1. Time, Space, Love in Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace / F. Fiona Moolla

2. Neel's Bildungsroman Ghosh's Model of Humanity as Embodied Difference in the Ibis Trilogy / Ilaria Rigoli

3. The Commerce of Languages in Amitav Ghosh's River of Smoke / Sabine Lauret-Taft

4. Matters of the Spirit Navigating between the Secular and the Religious in Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land / Lucio De Capitani

5. Cultural Plurality and Migration in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke / Kuldeep Mathur

pt. 2 Epistemology

6. I Met Two Narrators from an Antique Land A Narratological Reading of Amitav Ghosh's Travelogue / Alessandro Vescovi

7. A Sense of History the Poetics of Opium in Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy / Carlotta Beretta

8. Reclaiming History Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome / Murari Prasad

9. Amitav Ghosh on the Edge of Science Epistemological Anarchism and The Calcutta Chromosome / Letizia Garofalo

10. Silence, Subversion and the Subaltern in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome / Sqfoora Arbah

pt. 3 Ethics

11. The Adam Smith Problem in the Ibis Trilogy Self-Interest, Empathy, and Hermeneutic Irony / Sneharika Roy

12. From Mem to Mistress The Curious Case of Mrs Burnham in Amitav Ghosh's Flood of Fire / Pabitra Kumar Rana

13. The Perversity of Flowers Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies / Evelyne Hanquart-Turner

14. Place as Process in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide / Lenka Filipova

pt. 4 Space

15. Transcultural Identity and Cosmopolitanism in The Glass Palace / Asis De

16. Imagining Identities amidst Shifting Spatialities in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines / Swapna Gopinath

17. Ruptured Boundaries and Cosmopolitan Space The Spatial Imagination of Amitav Ghosh in The Shadow Lines / Madhusmita Pad

18. Land, River, Sea The Articulated Space of the Indian Ocean in Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy / Luca Raimondi

19. Horizonality in The Shadow Lines Disrupting Borders and Boundaries / Carol Leon

pt. 5 Interview

20. "A Few words from Amitav Ghosh on Gun Island".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Amitav Ghosh's culture chromosome

ISBN:

9789004404311

9004404317

OCLC:

1268120400