This is a critical introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of one of the most celebrated and significant literary voices to have emerged from India in recent decades. Encompassing all of Amitav Ghosh's writings to date, it takes a thematic approach that enables in-depth analysis of the cluster of themes, ideas and issues that Ghosh has steadily built up into a substantial intellectual project. This project overlaps significantly with many of the key debates in postcolonial studies and so this book is both an introduction to Ghosh's writing and a contribution to the development ... More
Keywords: India, Amitav Ghosh, postcolonial studies, postmodernism, critical introduction, fictional writings, non-fictional writings, intellectual project
Print publication date: 2007 | Print ISBN-13: 9780719070044 |
Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: July 2012 | DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719070044.001.0001 |