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    Chapter Significant Geographies in The Shadow Lines

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    Author(s)
    Orsini, Francesca
    Collection
    European Research Council (ERC); EU collection
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    Approaches to world literature often think through binaries of local/global, major/minor, provincial/cosmopolitan, taking them as given positions on a single world map. To an extent, this is true of Amitav Ghosh’s prize-winning essay “The testimony of my grandfather’s bookcase” (1998), which reflects on his grandfather’s collection of world literature books to think about the relationship between his grandfather’s provincial location in Calcutta and the world. Yet in The Shadow Lines Ghosh takes a much more complex and interesting approach to space, the world, perception and narration. In the novel’s complex narration, space, time, and self always appeared mirrored through other people, times, and spaces. Places also acquire reality and meaning only after they are first narrated and imagined, often several times, and before they are experienced directly. This is a stance that has deep existential but also epistemological implications that go beyond “simply” critiquing colonial and national border-making. This essay explores how (and which) spaces become “significant” in the novel, and how the novel’s approach to space can be productive for thinking about world literature.
    Book
    Crossing the Shadow Lines
    URI
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53112
    Keywords
    The Shadow Lines; World Literature; Literary Geographies
    DOI
    10.13135/2420-7969/11
    ISBN
    9788875901738
    Publisher
    University of Turin
    Publication date and place
    Turin, 2020
    Grantor
    • H2020 European Research Council - 670876 - MULOSIGE Research grant informationFind all documents
    Classification
    Biography, Literature and Literary studies
    Pages
    15
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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