"Postcolonial" Describes You as a Negative
An Interview With Amitav Ghosh
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3473810 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Vijay Kumar (Osmania University , Hyderabad, India, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 99-105 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Interventions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-801X • E-ISSN: 1469-929X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13698010601174203 |
| OpenAlex | W1753784558 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
Born in Calcutta in 1956, Amitav Ghosh studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria, and did fieldwork in Egypt and Cambodia. He worked for a newspaper in New Delhi, and currently lives in New York where he teaches at Columbia University. He has published five novels so far: The Circle of Reason (1986), The Shadow Lines (1988), The Calcutta Chromosome (1996), The Glass Palace (2000) and The Hungry Tide (2004). The Sahitya Akademi Award 1989 (for The Shadow Lines), the Arthur C. Clarke Award 1997 (for The Calcutta Chromosome), the Grand Prize for Fiction at the Frankfurt International eBook Awards in 2001 (for The Glass Palace) and the Hutch Crossword Book Award 2004 (for The Hungry Tide) are among the prominent prizes he has won. In 2001, he withdrew his novel The Glass Palace from consideration for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, questioning both the relevance of ‘commonwealth literature’ as a category and the policy of excluding non-English language writing from the purview of the Prize. (Read his letter to the Commonwealth Foundation and the Foundation's response at )
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Commonwealth · Media studies · New delhi · Newspaper · Sociology · Classics · History · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
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Community Resilience and the Cosmopolitan Role in the Environmental Challenge-Response Novels of Ghosh, Grace, and Sinha
The Eaton Sisters and the Figure of the Eurasian
Nation” Within the Nation
The agency of The Hungry Tide
The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature
Crossing the Indian Ocean and wading through the littoral
What postcolonial theory doesn't say
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2021 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |