Search Results for Amitav Ghosh

...Noelle Darling Abstract This article situates Amitav Ghosh—as both critic and novelist—in relation to the contemporary genre turn, as a means of questioning the logical distinctions undergirding ideas of literariness. Readers of Ghosh tend to cast the overtly science‐fictional The Calcutta...

...Ashwin Bajaj Abstract This article advances a conceptualization of the historical novel and addresses the genre's specificity via a reading of Amitav Ghosh's Ibis trilogy (2008–2015). To distinguish the historical novel from the trope of realism with which it is often thought to overlap...

...Paul Stasi This essay takes up the relationship between modernism and postcolonialism through a comparison of Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim and Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies . What Conrad understands as a crisis in narrative form is, I argue, a function of his understanding of history as the absolute...

...Nienke Boer Abstract This article diagnoses and discusses the emergence of a set of contemporary realist novels that engage with historical events, connect disparate parts of the global South through depicting travel or displacement, and feature subaltern protagonists. Exemplified by Amitav Ghosh's...

... of Cooppan’s analyses of nationalism seem far-flung and stretched thin over the long twentieth century, they are nevertheless compellingly synthesized through her method of “ghost reading” (100–101). As Cooppan, aptly quoting Amitav Ghosh, reminds us, “all [that] a ghost is, [is] a pres- ence...

... is organized around its three main concepts—teleological time (via Goethe, G. W. F. Hegel, and Karl Marx), worlding (via Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, and Derrida), and postcolonial literature (exemplified by Michelle Cliff, Amitav Ghosh, Nurrudin Farah, and, in an epilogue, Ninotchka Rosca and Timothy Mo...

... formation in spirit and practice. From Mantel's novel, Hart moves seamlessly to a discussion of Amitav Ghosh's Ibis trilogy, which provides the hinge for the final chapter on Ballard's and Ishiguro's treatments of interwar Shanghai in Empire of the Sun and When We Were Orphans , respectively...

... as a radical alternative to metaphor, which is the conventional literary figure of the postcolonial novel, as exemplified by Adichie's own “half of a yellow sun,” Roy's “god of small things” (or the first “cost of living”), Amitav Ghosh's “shadow lines,” and so on. The metaphor is the sign of postcolonial...

...-called world literature in English or to fiction from what was until recently called the “developing world,” where the historical novel still finds work to do, sifting the ruins of empire, traversing the war zones and migration paths of empire's wake. Once again the world intrudes as limit: Amitav Ghosh...

...—stretches the idea of US fiction to, if not past, the breaking point. It is not that the affinities between these authors' work and that of Amitav Ghosh and Manil Suri, who do live and work in the United States, are not interesting; but here I find Irr's focus on what happens in novels less compelling...

... to Amitav Ghosh—opens up enticing prospects for the field. In this sense, extending its terms to look back on itself, we may see Walkowitz's book as itself born translated: remarkably accessible, lucid in its exposition of some difficult novels, aware of debates in specialized literary studies, but free...

... and Infectious Diseases, in March. 3 But the novel has known this all along. The novel has never been (only) what Amitav Ghosh, quoting John Updike, damningly characterizes as an “individual moral adventure” ( Ghosh 127 ). Looking back at the long epoch of “surging carbon emissions,” Ghosh notes that “very...

... to transnational literary texts. Critique is performed in this book, and on an extraordinary range of texts; Marx puts contemporaries like Michael Ondaatje, Timothy Mo, Kazuo Ishiguro, Amitav Ghosh, Ahdaf Soueif, Monica Ali, Yvonne Vera, and others in fruitful dialogue with modernists like Joseph Conrad, Vir...

... in the Colonial Indian Ocean,” is a useful example. In it, Lionnet aims mainly to “put into crisis” ( 448 ) earlier epistemologies and uses an Amitav Ghosh novel involving Mauritius ( Sea of Poppies ) to mount “a harsh critique of the historiographic practices that tend to solidify rigid categories of academic...

... work “is an exploration of the possibilities of narrative, a recuperation of this currently much-maligned way of ordering the world” ( 24 ). With The Overstory , Powers participates in the project identified by Amitav Ghosh in The Great Derangement ( 2016 ), which details the imaginative challenges...

... than they did, both in critical discussion and also in curricular organization. How has it happened that an essay of mine is about to appear with the title “Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy in American World Literature”? Cien años de soledad , by Gabriel García Márquez, appeared in 1967, and in Novel...

... epoch renders even this form of predictability obsolete. As Amitav Ghosh has argued, the “regime of statistics” ( 19 ) that has long governed fiction and insurance does not reflect the reality of a planetary situation characterized by unlikely and unprecedented phenomena. Reporting on the crisis of home...

... Mahfouz and Pramoedya Ananta Toer recruited to play the grizzled stalwarts to new masters such as Amitav Ghosh and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Such world realists (however modernist or experimental they may still be) are often pitched against the abstraction and stylization of the old Salman Rushdie–J. M...