Amitabh Ghosh\'s The Shadow Lines : A Critical Essays

Contents: Preface. 1. Amitav Ghosh and Colonial India. 2. In our translated world: Transcultural communication in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide. 3. Amitav Ghosh’s The Circle of Reason: A Study of Diaspora. 4. Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines: Re-reading its craft and concerns. 5. Silence, speech and shadowiness: Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines. 6. Imaginary Pasts: Colonization, migration and loss in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace. 7. Beyond Culture: Space, Identity and the politics of difference. 8. Post-colonialism now: Autonomy, Cosmopolitanism and Diaspora. 9. Incendiary circumstances: A Chronicle of the turmoil of our times. 10. Anthropology as cultural translation: Amitav Ghosh’s in an antique land. 11. Towards a post-Diasporic literary history. 12. Expanding narratives of partition and post-partition: A Transformative experience. 13. Chronotopes of places and non-places: Ecopoetics of Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide. Bibliography. Index.

In postcolonial world, among the postcolonial writers Amitav Ghosh is very prominent. His books contain either postcolonial scenario or the pre-colonial and colonial scenario. He is an Indian writer and India was ruled by the British for tow hundred years. Amitav Ghosh creates vivid images in his books where readers can easily enter into that world of exquisite imagery. Before moving further let us check a short biography of this writer.