Chapter Significant Geographies in The Shadow Lines
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 refl...
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| author | Orsini, Francesca |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-786562025-05-08T12:56:52Z Chapter Significant Geographies in The Shadow Lines Orsini, Francesca The Shadow Lines; World Literature; Literary Geographies 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. 2022-02-22T04:02:06Z 2022-02-22T04:02:06Z 2022-02-21T10:48:01Z 2020 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53112 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78656 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/53112/1/Significant%20geographies%20in%20the%20Shadow%20Lines.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/53112/1/Significant%20geographies%20in%20the%20Shadow%20Lines.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/53112/1/Significant%20geographies%20in%20the%20Shadow%20Lines.pdf University of Turin 10.13135/2420-7969/11 10.13135/2420-7969/11 8707441f-0ab2-445b-bebe-6aa278fe8091 Crossing the Shadow Lines H2020 European Research Council 178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079 European Research Council (ERC) EU collection 15 Turin 670876 MULOSIGE open access |
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