Amitav Ghosh: An Introduction

John C. Hawley

doi:10.1017/UPO9788175968172

Contemporary Indian Writers in English (CIWE) is a series that presents critical commentaries on some of the best-known names in the genre. With the high visibility of Indian writing in English in academic, critical, pedagogic and reader circles, there is a perceivable demand for lucid yet rigorous introduction of several of its authors and genres. Amitav Ghosh, a novelist with an extraordinary sense of history and place, is indisputably one of the most important novelists and essayists of our time. In this volume, John Hawley provides a lucid, friendly and thorough introduction to the fiction and essays of Ghosh.

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Series Editor's Preface
pp ix-x

1 - The Writer, his Contexts and his Themes
pp 1-17

2 - A Writer Situated in a History and in a Place: Ghosh's Non-fiction
pp 18-45

3 - A Tale of Two Riots: The Circle of Reason and The Shadow Lines
pp 46-82

4 - The Ebb and Flow of Peoples across Continents and Generations: In An Antique Land, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide
pp 83-143

5 - Subaltern Agency as Fiction or Science: The Calcutta Chromosome
pp 144-163

6 - Beyond the Commonwealth: Amitav Ghosh and Indian Writing in English
pp 164-177

Topics for Discussion
pp 178-184

Bibliography
pp 185-213

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