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

Sankaran, Chitra

2012

Overview

This is the first collection of international scholarship on the fiction of Amitav Ghosh. Ghosh's work is read by a wide audience and is well regarded by general readers, critics, and scholars throughout the world. Born in India, Ghosh has lived in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. His work spans genres from contemporary realism to historical fiction to science fiction, but has consistently dealt with the dislocations, violence, and meetings of peoples and cultures engendered by colonialism. The essays in this volume analyze Ghosh's novels in ways that yield new insights into concepts central to postcolonial and transnational studies, making important intertextual connections and foregrounding links to prevailing theoretical and speculative scholarship. The work's introduction argues that irony is central to Ghosh's vision and discusses the importance of the concepts of \"testimony\" and \"history\" to Ghosh's narratives. An invaluable interview with Amitav Ghosh discusses individual works and the author's overall philosophy.

• Publisher: State University of New York Press,SUNY Press
• Subject: 20th century / Asian Studies / Asian Studies : Asian Literature / Criticism and interpretation / Ghosh, Amitav / Ghosh, Amitav -- Criticism and interpretation / History and criticism / Indic literature (English) / Indic literature (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism / Language & Literature / LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic / Literature and history
• ISBN: 9781438441818, 1438441819, 9781438441825, 1438441827