Chitra Sankaran’s New Publications

From Singapore Chitra Sankaran writes: ‘I wanted to let you know that the edited volume on your novels entitled History, Narrative and Testimony in Amitav Ghosh’s Fiction is finally out by SUNY Press. Please scroll down to see it featured in SUNY Spring collection. The initial responses to the volume have all been most positive. I am keeping my fingers crossed.’

Here is the Table of Contents:
Introduction: Beyond Borders and Boundaries
Chitra Sankaran

1. Diasporic Predicaments: An Interview with Amitav Ghosh
Chitra Sankaran

2. Unlikely Encounters: Fiction and Scientific Discourse in the Novels of Amitav Ghosh
Lou Ratté

3. The Glass Palace: Reconnecting Two Diasporas
Nandini Bhautoo-Dewnarain

4. Resignifying “Coolie”: Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace
Shanthini Pillai

5. The Girmitiyas’ Journey in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies
Rajesh Rai and Andrea Marion Pinkney

6. Shadows and Mysteries: Illusions of Imagined Communities in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines
Crystal Taylor

7. Amitav Ghosh’s “Imagined Communities”: The Hungry Tide as a Possible “Other” World
Federica Zullo

8. Sharing Landscapes and Mindscapes: Ethics and Aesthetics in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome
Chitra Sankaran

9. Language and Ethics in The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
Tuomas Huttunen

10. Ghosh, Language, and The Hungry Tide
Ismail S. Talib

11. Intertexuality in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
Shao-Pin Luo

12. “Dwelling in Travel”: In An Antique Land  and the Making of a Resisting Post-Colonial History
Tammy Vernerey

13. The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium and Discovery—A Tour de Force Transcending Genres
Ruby S. Ramraj

14. Inner Circles and the Voice of the Shuttle: Native Forms and Narrative Structure in Amitav Ghosh’s The Circle of Reason
Robbie B. H. Goh

Chitra adds: ‘In between my academic endeavours I managed to write a murder mystery novel set in Singapore and Tamil Nadu, India. It has been published by New Dawn Publishers, a UK firm that has been recently set up by a group of Creative Writing graduates from London. The book is being street launched this month. It is entitled Void of Reason. If you are in the mood to read a mystery novel by an Asian, please do pick it up, or alternatively, I could send you a copy.’

Evidently Void of Reason is flying off the shelves: it is already out of stock on Amazon!