The Fiction of Amitav Ghosh : A Postcolonial Perspectives
Contents: Preface. Contributors. 1. A study of postcolonial transcultural communication in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide/Anju Bala Agrawal. 2. Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines: a postcolonial analysis/Arvind M. Nawale. 3. Deconstructing the poetics of colonialism to post colonialism in The Glass Palace/Beena Agrawal. 4. Marginality afloat: race, caste, class and the colonial ship in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies/Dinesh Kumar. 5. Fleeting identities: invoking essential humanity in Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide/Dwijen Sharma. 6. Postmodernist ideologies: a critique of Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide/Savita Shrivastava and Kavita Chauhan. 7. Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines: The quest for freedom/Lucky Gupta. 8. Recollections of pest experiences in The Shadow Lines/Muthu Mari. 9. Deconstructing caste centered oppressive mechanism in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies/Neeta. 10. Revisiting history in The Hungry Tide/Nilofer Shakir. 11. Counter science: a study of subaltern agency in Amitav Ghose’s The Calcutta Chromosome/Pratima Das. 12. The ethos of multiculturalism in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies/A. Babu Rajendra Prasad and Parul Gupta. 13. Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines as a postcolonial diasporic discourse/Shishu Paul. 14. The Hungry Tide: an insight into the culture of Sundarbans/Sudipta Kaiti. 15. Teaching Amitav Ghosh to Indian undergraduates: contesting nation-state debate with reference to The Shadow Lines/Tamishra Swain. 16. A postcolonial interpretation of The Calcutta Chromosome/Joydeep Banerjee and Taniya Chakraborty. 17. The shadow lines: problematizing the postcolonial issues/Tribhuwan Kumar. 18. Sea of poppies: a glimpse of Colonial India/Vivekanand Jha. 19. Home and away: postcolonial representations in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines/N. JaiShree.
Amitav Ghosh has emerged as one of the most distinguished and eminent Indian English novelists in post Rushdie period. His ingenious training as a social anthropologist has enabled him to enrich his narrative with the different cultures and histories of the various places and its people, revealing the reservoir of his knowledge. He said he writes novels because novels are about people. Amitav Ghosh’s engagement with some of the serious issues facing contemporary ex-colonies in Asian Africa is reflected in his novels. Ghosh has woven fact and fiction in a complex, absorbing narrative that mirrors lives across nation’s spans almost half a century of recent Indian history.
The present book The Fiction of Amitav Ghosh : A Postcolonial Perspective makes a comprehensive study of Ghosh’s novels from the angle of postcolonialism. Postcolonial discourse is a current movement or a theory that deals mainly with the effects of colonization on the culture a thoughts of the colonized society. Postcolonialism forms a powerful intellectual interest group which renews the perception and understanding of different socio-political, economic literary and cultural aspects of modern period. Ghosh’s foray into history, politics, medical research anthropology, are well known. His novels derive their special from his exquisite handling of the characteristic postmodern devices like science fiction, subaltern aspects, multiculturalism and postcolonialsm etc. The anthology will be of a considerable use to scholars and researchers interested in the field of Indian English Fiction.
Amitav Ghosh has emerged as one of the most distinguished and eminent Indian English novelists in post Rushdie period. His ingenious training as a social anthropologist has enabled him to enrich his narrative with the different cultures and histories of the various places and its people, revealing the reservoir of his knowledge. He said he writes novels because novels are about people. Amitav Ghosh’s engagement with some of the serious issues facing contemporary ex-colonies in Asian Africa is reflected in his novels. Ghosh has woven fact and fiction in a complex, absorbing narrative that mirrors lives across nation’s spans almost half a century of recent Indian history.
The present book The Fiction of Amitav Ghosh : A Postcolonial Perspective makes a comprehensive study of Ghosh’s novels from the angle of postcolonialism. Postcolonial discourse is a current movement or a theory that deals mainly with the effects of colonization on the culture a thoughts of the colonized society. Postcolonialism forms a powerful intellectual interest group which renews the perception and understanding of different socio-political, economic literary and cultural aspects of modern period. Ghosh’s foray into history, politics, medical research anthropology, are well known. His novels derive their special from his exquisite handling of the characteristic postmodern devices like science fiction, subaltern aspects, multiculturalism and postcolonialsm etc. The anthology will be of a considerable use to scholars and researchers interested in the field of Indian English Fiction.
