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

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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