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

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This volume moves beyond traditional postcolonial studies as twenty-two scholars from all over the globe explore Amitav Ghosh’s writings interdisciplinary in dialogue with four domains: anthropology, epistemology, ethics and space. Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Culture Chromosome 1 Anthropology 2 Epistemology 3 Ethics 4 Space Works Cited Part 1 Anthropology Chapter 1 Time, Space, Love in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace Works Cited Chapter 2 Neel’s Bildungsroman: Ghosh’s Model of Humanity as Embodied Difference in the Ibis Trilogy Works Cited Chapter 3 The Commerce of Languages in Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke 1 Routes: Mapping Trade 2 Confluences 3 Transgression Works Cited Chapter 4 Matters of the Spirit: Navigating between the Secular and the Religious in Amitav Ghosh’s In an Antique Land Works Cited Chapter 5 Cultural Plurality and Migration in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke Works Cited Part 2 Epistemology Chapter 6 I Met Two Narrators from an Antique Land: A Narratological Reading of Amitav Ghosh’s Travelogue Works Cited Chapter 7 A Sense of History: The Poetics of Opium in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy 1 Introduction 2 From Historical Research to the Novel 3 Why Opium? 4 Power and Opium in the Ibis Trilogy 5 All the Different Sides of the Story: Opium as Metonymy of History Works Cited Chapter 8 Reclaiming History: Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome Works Cited Chapter 9 Amitav Ghosh on the Edge of Science: Epistemological Anarchism and The Calcutta Chromosome Works Cited Chapter 10 Silence, Subversion and the Subaltern in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome 1 Subversive Subaltern Science 2 Subversive Subaltern History Works Cited Part 3 Ethics Chapter 11 The Adam Smith Problem in the Ibis Trilogy: Self-Interest, Empathy, and Hermeneutic Irony 1 Obeying the Laws of Free Trade 2 “And the Laws of Conscience […] What of them?” 3 “What of them?” or a Critique of the “Love of the System” Works Cited Chapter 12 From Mem to Mistress: The Curious Case of Mrs Burnham in Amitav Ghosh’s Flood of Fire Works Cited Chapter 13 The Perversity of Flowers: Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies Works Cited Chapter 14 Place as Process in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide 1 The Sundarbans as Social Process 2 The Sundarbans as Material Becoming Works Cited Part 4 Space Chapter 15 Transcultural Identity and Cosmopolitanism in The Glass Palace Works Cited Chapter 16 Imagining Identities amidst Shifting Spatialities in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines Works Cited Chapter 17 Ruptured Boundaries and Cosmopolitan Space: The Spatial Imagination of Amitav Ghosh in The Shadow Lines 1 Going Away 2 Coming Home Works Cited Chapter 18 Land, River, Sea: The Articulated Space of the Indian Ocean in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy Works Cited Chapter 19 Horizonality in The Shadow Lines: Disrupting Borders and Boundaries Works Cited Part 5 Interview Chapter 20 “A Few words from Amitav Ghosh on Gun Island” Index of Names