Author: Tabish Khair
Editor(s): Tabish Khair
Publisher: Permanent Black
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 185
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8178241137
Description
Amitav Ghosh is widely recognized as one of India's leading novelists. His work has won numerous literary prizes in India and abroad, has been translated into many languages and is required reading at several universities.
This book examines Ghosh's fiction through separate critical essays by reputed scholars in six countries. It includes a study of the early novels, as well as essays on 'In An Antique Land', 'The Shadow Lines', ' The Calcutta Chromosome', and 'The Glass Palace'. These thoughtful, incisive and highly readable essays are grounded in the interests that infuse Ghosh's fiction: history, science, discovery, travel, nationalism, subalternity, agency. It is invaluable for those interested in Ghosh's work, providing ideas and starting points for scholars and students.
An up-to-date bibliography on Ghosh's works is also provided.
Contents
Preface
Satyajit Ray
Essay by Amitav Ghosh
Traveling in the West: The Writing of Amitav Ghosh by Robert Dixon
Historicizing Scientific Reason in Amitav Ghosh's The Circle of Reason by Claire
Chambers
A Choice of Histories" Ghosh vs. Hegel i