Approaches to Teaching the Works of Amitav Ghosh
John Hawley editor Gaurav Desai editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Modern Language Association of America
Published:30th Apr '19
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The prizewinning author of novels, nonfiction, and hybrid texts, Amitav Ghosh grew up in India and trained as an anthropologist. His works have been translated in over thirty languages. They cross and mix a number of genres, from science fiction to the historical novel, incorporating ethnohistory and travelogue and even recuperating dead languages. His subjects include climate change, postcolonial identities, translocation, migration, oceanic spaces, and the human interface with the environment.
Part 1 of this volume discusses editions of Ghosh's works and major works of scholarship. The essays in part 2, ""Approaches,"" present ideas for teaching Ghosh's works through considerations of postcolonial feminism, historicity in the novels, environmentalism, language, sociopolitical conflict, genre, intersectional reading, and the ethics of colonized subjecthood. Guidance for teaching Ghosh in different contexts, such as general education, world literature, or single-author classes, is provided.
I enjoyed reading [this volume] tremendously and enthusiastically recommend it"" - Pallavi Rastogi, Louisiana State University
ISBN: 9781603293976
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 345g
246 pages