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vii Contents Chronological Bioprofile ix Introduction: Beyond Borders and Boundaries CHITRA SANKARAN xiii 1 Diasporic Predicaments: An Interview with Amitav Ghosh CHITRA SANKARAN 1 2 Unlikely Encounters: Fiction and Scientific Discourse in the Novels of Amitav Ghosh LOU RATTÉ 17 3 The Glass Palace: Reconnecting Two Diasporas NANDINI BHAUTOO-DEWNARAIN 33 4 Resignifying “Coolie”: Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace SHANTHINI PILLAI 47 5 The Girmitiyas’ Journey in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies RAJESH RAI AND ANDREA MARION PINKNEY 65 6 Shadows and Mysteries: Illusions of Imagined Communities in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines CRYSTAL TAYLOR 79 7 Amitav Ghosh’s “Imagined Communities”: The Hungry Tide as a Possible “Other” World FEDERICA ZULLO 95 8 Sharing Landscapes and Mindscapes: Ethics and Aesthetics in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome CHITRA SANKARAN 109 viii CONTENTS 19 Language and Ethics in The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh TUOMAS HUTTUNEN 121 10 Ghosh, Language, and The Hungry Tide ISMAIL S. TALIB 133 11 Intertexuality in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide SHAO-PIN LUO 145 12 “Dwelling in Travel”: In An Antique Land and the Making of a Resisting Post-Colonial History TAMMY VERNEREY 171 13 The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium and Discovery—A Tour de Force Transcending Genres RUBY S. RAMRAJ 191 14 Inner Circles and the Voice of the Shuttle: Native Forms and Narrative Structure in Amitav Ghosh’s The Circle of Reason ROBBIE B. H. GOH 205 List of Contributors 219 Index 223 ...