02967namaa2200445uu 4500001001000000003000600010005001700016006001900033007001500052008004100067020001700108024003100125040001700156041000800173041000800181042000700189072001600196720002500212245008900237260001600326300003100342336002600373337002600399338003600425506005100461520156800512540006302080546001202143546001202155650002802167653004002195720002502235720002602260720002602286720002902312720002902341793001802370856011602388999001702504doab78648oapen20260305123948.0m     o  d        cr|mn|---annan220222s2020    xx |||||o     ||| 0|ita d  a2420-7969/117 a10.13135/2420-7969/112doi  aoapencoapen0 aeng0 aita  adc 7aDNL2bicssc1 aADAMI, Esterino4edt00aCrossing the Shadow LinesbEssays on the Topicality of Amitav Ghosh's Modern Classic  aTurinc2020  a1 online resource (210 p.)  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier0 aFree-to-readfUnrestricted online access2star  aAmitav 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.  aAll rights reserveduhttp://oapen.org/content/about-rights  aEnglish  aItalian 7aLiterary essays2bicssc  aessays; amitav gosh; modern classic1 aADAMI, Esterino4oth1 aConcilio, Carmen4edt1 aConcilio, Carmen4oth1 aVESCOVI, ALESSANDRO4edt1 aVESCOVI, ALESSANDRO4oth0 aDOAB Library.40uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/7864870zFree-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication  c92828d92828