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Amitav Ghosh | Databases Explored | Gale
Amitav Ghosh, a leading postcolonial writer in English, is Indian by birth but global in his vision. The central concern of his work is the relationship of the individual to culture and history. He believes, as he wrote in a 14 December 2001 e-mail to Dipesh Chakraborty, the author of Provincializing Europe (1999), that "history is never more ...
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Amitav Ghosh's new book is a chronicle of opium addiction
Amitav Ghosh has chased opium for decades. From the stash of opium papers in the British archives to the poppy fields from Bihar to Guangzhou, he followed the flower―the most potent force that, like Helen of Troy, launched a thousand ships, and more―for a considerable part of his life. Ultimately, Ghosh's book is about morality.
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'Gun Island' Is a Surreal Novel About Climate Change and …
JR Ramakrishnan. T he specter of climate change swirls around the characters of Amitav Ghosh's latest novel, Gun Island. Deen, a New York-based antiquarian book dealer goes into the Sundarbans, the (disappearing) wetlands wedged between India and Bangladesh, in search of a shrine—and the truth behind the myth of …
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Amitav Ghosh talks three new projects, thinking in visual
Amitav Ghosh has announced three new projects — Jungle-Nama, a verse retelling of the legend of Bon-Bibi, a Sunderbans epic; a new collection of essays; and The Invisible Hand, a work of non-fiction informed by his research for the Ibis trilogy. 'If you're a city-dweller, a story like Bon-Bibi is an oddity to you. But if you're living in the …
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The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Ghosh
"Ghosh, who has previously broached environmental questions in fiction (The HungryTide, the Ibis trilogy, and elsewhere), here steps back from the role of storyteller to analyze modern literature, history, and politics.His purpose is to show that all three cultural modes share assumptions that render climate change unthinkable, occluding our view of its …
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The heroic tale of great entrepreneurs is nonsense: Amitav Ghosh
Author Amitav Ghosh needs no introduction. He has penned the Ibis trilogy that brings alive the history of the flourishing opium trade in Asia in the 19th century, and the wars that followed. His latest is a tome on a more current topic — climate change. So, was it easier to write about the past from a safe distance or the present, an evolving challenge?
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Bibliography – Amitav Ghosh
Shinn, Christopher A. 2008. "On Machines and Mosquitoes: Neuroscience, Bodies, and Cyborgs in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome.". MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 33 (4):145-166. Thieme, John. 2003. "The Discoverer Discovered.". In Amitav Ghosh.
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A Clash Of Civilizations: The Ibis Trilogy By Amitav Ghosh
Culture Trip 13 August 2021. Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy, which consists of Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011) and Flood of Fire (2015), is a work of historical fiction which brings to life the seafaring world of Asia during the time of the Opium Wars. Beryl Belsky shares her thoughts on this expansive set of novels, which take ...
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Book Review: The Great Derangement: Climate Change and …
In The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, acclaimed novelist Amitav Ghosh offers a new non-fiction work that aims to confront this urgent issue by reflecting on our 'deranged' modes of political and socio-economic organisation via three themes: literature, history and politics. This is an admirable book …
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Author Amitav Ghosh on Indigenous beliefs, national …
Stephanie Han. Stephanie Han is a producer for The Conversation. Contact her at shan@hawaiipublicradio. The award-winning author and environmentalist Amitav Ghosh is considered by many to be one of the most important global thinkers of the decade. He talked with The Conversation ahead of a free lecture at the University of Hawaiʻi.
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Amitav Ghosh's new book is deep and delicate
Amitav Ghosh's new book is deep and delicate. The Living Mountain arrived aptly in an April of record-breaking heat—scorching, exhausting, unrelenting, and a sneak-peek at the world ahead. A fable for our times, Amitav Ghosh's new book has spun a tiny tale that encompasses the universe. At the heart of it, the book tries to make sense …
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The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the …
― LA Times "Resistance to the grim realities of climate change is so widespread that the crisis barely figures in literary fiction, notes writer Amitav Ghosh. Branding our era of denial and inertia the Great Derangement, Ghosh looks in turn at literature, history and politics to examine this failure, noting that extreme events such as …
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Amitav Ghosh – Literature and Humanities
Amitav Ghosh (1956 – ), a versatile writer is well known for constructing complicated writings, exuberant and rich language, complex narratives, enormous researches and vivid descriptions and an expertise in dealing with space and time. All his novels are rooted in strong historical backgrounds. The individuals of Ghosh are …
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Amitav Ghosh feted with 54th Jnanpith Award for 'contribution to
NEW DELHI: Bestselling author and leading contemporary English writer, Amitav Ghosh, was awarded the 54th Jnanpith Award for his contribution to the enrichment of Indian literature in English at a ceremony at the India Habitat Centre on Wednesday. He was conferred the award by former diplomat and governor of West Bengal Gopalkrishna …
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The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh | Goodreads
Amitav Ghosh is one of India's best-known writers. His books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, Incendiary Circumstances, The Hungry Tide.His most recent novel, Sea of Poppies, is the first volume of the Ibis Trilogy. Amitav Ghosh …
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Amitav Ghosh becomes first English writer to win Jnanpith …
The decision to select Amitav Ghosh for 54th Jananpith Award was taken in a meeting of Jnanpith Selection Board chaired by eminent novelist and scholar Pratibha Ray. Other eminent persons of the selection board included Girishwar Misra, Shamim Hanfi, and Harish Trivedi, among others. What makes Amitav Ghosh a 'path-breaking novelist'
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