Beyond national literatures: Empire and Amitav Ghosh

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Beyond national literatures: Empire and Amitav Ghosh

Scholarship on the writer Amitav Ghosh has addressed issues of nationalism, postcolonial identity, ecocriticism, testimony, subalternity, and historiography. But the idea of Ghosh as an Asian American author with a particular relationship to the United States and its national mythologies, has barely...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Maxey, Ruth
Other Authors:	Srikanth, Rajini
Format:	Book Section
Published:	Cambridge University Press 2016
Subjects:	Amitav Ghosh; Bengali American; anti-imperialism; Asian American literature
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36303/

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