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245 0 0 _aIn pursuit of Amitav Ghosh : some recent readings /
_cedited by Tapan Kumar Ghosh, Prasanta Bhattacharya.
260 _aHyderabad,
_aA.P., India :
_bOrient Blackswan,
_c2013.
300 _aviii, 288 pages ;
_c23 cm
505 _aIntroduction -- Amitav Ghosh: A Bio-bibliography -- An Interview -- Amitav Ghosh: In Conversation with Tapan Kumar Ghosh and Makarand R. Paranjape -- Ghosh Worldview: Macro Analyses -- 1. Mutations of The Calcutta Chromosome? Amitav Ghosh and the Mapping of a "Minor" Literature / Makarand R. Paranjape -- 2. Cosmopolitans of a Borderless Space / Anjali Gera Roy -- 3. The Water Narrative in Amitav Ghosh / Samik Bandyopadhyay -- 4. Amitav Ghosh qua Storier-Historian: Some Thoughts on Nation and Race / Sumit Chakravorty / Amitav Ghosh: Readings of his Fiction -- 5. Trapped in the Circle: A Postcolonial Critique of "Reason" in Amitav Ghosh's The Circle of Reason / Samrat Laskar -- 6. Footprints on Water: The Shadow Lines Sisir Kumar Chatterjee and Abhijit Gupta -- 7. The Calcutta Chromosome: A Study / Pradip Ranjan Sengupta -- 8. "Live My Prince; Hold On to Your Life": Issues of Transnational Life and Identity in Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace / Sajalkumar Bhattacharya -- 9. The Tides of History: Changing Currents of History and Identity in The Hungry Tide / Piyas Chakrabarti -- 10. Sea ofPoppies and the Narrative of Exclusion / Siddhartha Biswas -- 11. Vernacular Nostalgia to Hybrid Pidgins: A Study of Linguistic Bridges in River of Smoke Samrat Laskar Amitav Ghosh: Readings of his Non-Fiction -- 12. "Subversive History in the Guise of a Traveller's Tale": A Postmodern Assignation of Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land / Saptarshi Mallick -- 13. Dancing in Cambodia: Nativist Assertion against the "Absoluteness" of Defeat / Samik Dasgupta -- 14. Countdown: Towards a Crisis of Civilization / Jolly Das -- 15. We-ing and They-ing: Othering and Violence in The Imam and the Indian / Sisir Kumar Chatterjee and Abhijit Gupta -- 16. Representation of Violence: Amitav Ghosh's Incendiary Circumstances / Sandip Ain -- Select Bibliography -- The Contributors
650 _aGhosh, Amitav, -- 1956- -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.
650 _aGhosh, Amitav, -- 1956-
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