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Author:   Asis De ,  Alessandro Vescovi
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   216
Weight:   0.739kg
ISBN:  

9789004404311

ISBN 10:   9004404317
Pages:   342
Publication Date:   04 November 2021
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Format:   Hardback
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Foreword   John Thieme Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors  Introduction: The Culture Chromosome   Asis De and Alessandro Vescovi part 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 part 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   Safoora Arbab part 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 part 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   Sambit Panigrahi and Madhusmita Pati 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 part 5 Interview 20 “A Few words from Amitav Ghosh on Gun Island” Index

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Asis De is Associate Professor of English at Mahishadal Raj College (PG), and academic counsellor in the English and Foreign Languages University (Hyderabad), India. He has published many articles on Anglophone Postcolonial and Diasporic Literatures, Ecological Humanities and Cultural Studies, and recently edited Mapping South Asian Diaspora (2018). He has delivered research papers on issues of cultural identity, transnationalism, ecological humanities, kinship and disability studies in Asian, Caribbean and African narratives. Alessandro Vescovi is Associate Professor at the Department of modern languages, University of Milano, where he teaches Anglophone Literatures. He is part of the advisory boards of literature and Indology journals and series, he has published monographs, including one on Amitav Ghosh (Firenze, 2012) and articles on Indian writing in English (Narayan, Naipaul, Ghosh, Desai, Lahiri, Mukherjee) in several international journals. He is currently working on a monograph on post-secularism in Indian fiction.

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