02966namaa2200445uu 4500 doab78648 oapen 20260305123948.0 m o d cr|mn|---annan 220222s2020 xx |||||o ||| 0|ita d 2420-7969/11 10.13135/2420-7969/11 doi oapen oapen eng ita dc DNL bicssc ADAMI, Esterino edt Crossing the Shadow Lines Essays on the Topicality of Amitav Ghosh's Modern Classic Turin 2020 1 online resource (210 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star Amitav Ghosh's second novel, The Shadow Lines (1988), was notoriously conceived in 1984, in the aftermath of Indira Gandhi's assassination, when Delhi was upturned by bloodthirsty mobs that attacked the Sikh community killing, raping, and looting. This was the "madeleine" that brought the would-be novelist (he was halfway through writing The Circle of Reason) back to 1964, when a similar mob attacked Hindus in Dhaka, where Ghosh, then a child, was living with his family. Thus The Shadow Lines became a historical novel about Bengal in the Sixties, a portrait of post-Independence India, a Bildungsroman, or indeed a Künstlerroman, about a young Bengali, an Indian reply to both Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1915) and Remembrance of Time Past (1922) that enthused a generation of Indian intellectuals. Indeed, The Shadow Lines is the first and so far only novel by a living author to be included in University syllabi all over India. Unsurprisingly this is, among Ghosh's books, the most written about, especially in South Asia. The Shadow Lines has gained enormous resonance in postcolonial studies as it touches upon some of the major issues in the fields of colonial history, national identities, memory, and borders. Likewise, the novel has been seminal in the definition and discussion of a postcolonial geography that challenges the current cartographical order. It has drawn from the literary tradition of the past and has influenced new literary productions, as the variety of international scholarly essays in this collection demonstrate. All rights reserved http://oapen.org/content/about-rights English Italian Literary essays bicssc essays; amitav gosh; modern classic ADAMI, Esterino oth Concilio, Carmen edt Concilio, Carmen oth VESCOVI, ALESSANDRO edt VESCOVI, ALESSANDRO oth DOAB Library. https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78648 0 Free-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication 92828 92828