Amitav Ghosh’s Culture Chromosome: Anthropology, Epistemology, Ethics, Space

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An Indian Bengali by birth, Amitav Ghosh has established himself as a major voice in what is often called world literature, addressing issues such as the post-colonial and neo-colonial predicaments, the plight of the subalterns, the origin of globalisation and capitalism, and lately ecology and migration. The volume is therefore divided according to the four domains that lie at the heart of Ghosh’s writing practice: anthropology, epistemology, ethics and space. In this volume, a number of scholars from all over the world have come together to shed new light on the works and poetics of Amitav Ghosh according to the epistemic frameworks that form the bedrock of his fiction.

Contributors: Safoora Arbab, Carlotta Beretta, Lucio De Capitani, Asis De, Lenka Filipova, Letizia Garofalo, Swapna Gopinath, Evelyne Hanquart-Turner, Sabine Lauret-Taft, Carol Leon, Kuldeep Mathur, Fiona Moolla, Sambit Panigrahi, Madhsumita Pati, Murari Prasad, Luca Raimondi, Pabitra Kumar Rana, Ilaria Rigoli, Sneharika Roy, John Thieme, Alessandro Vescovi.
An Indian Bengali by birth, Amitav Ghosh has established himself as a major voice in what is often called world literature, addressing issues such as the post-colonial and neo-colonial predicaments, the plight of the subalterns, the origin of globalisation and capitalism, and lately ecology and m...

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Asis De is Associate Professor of English at Mahishadal Raj College (PG), and academic counsellor in the English and Foreign Languages University (Hyderabad), India. He has published many articles on Anglophone Postcolonial and Diasporic Literatures, Ecological Humanities and Cultural Studies, and recently edited Mapping South Asian Diaspora (2018). He has delivered research papers on issues of cultural identity, transnationalism, ecological humanities, kinship and disability studies in Asian, Caribbean and African narratives.

Alessandro Vescovi is Associate Professor at the Department of modern languages, University of Milano, where he teaches Anglophone Literatures. He is part of the advisory boards of literature and Indology journals and series, he has published monographs, including one on Amitav Ghosh (Firenze, 2012) and articles on Indian writing in English (Narayan, Naipaul, Ghosh, Desai, Lahiri, Mukherjee) in several international journals. He is currently working on a monograph on post-secularism in Indian fiction.
Asis De is Associate Professor of English at Mahishadal Raj College (PG), and academic counsellor in the English and Foreign Languages University (Hyderabad), India. He has published many articles on Anglophone Postcolonial and Diasporic Literatures, Ecological Humanities and Cultural Studies, an...

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