Borders and silence as forms of knowledge in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome

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https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/9696

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Amitav Ghosh, epistemology, geography, Calcutta, encyclopedia

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Forms of knowledge and our understanding of the world are central concerns in Amitav Ghosh's fiction. His novels often deconstruct epistemology derived from the Western philosophical tradition, with the aim of pointing at its relativity in spite of its claim to universality. This essay wants to demonstrate how The Calcutta Chromosome (1996) closely connects the production of an alternative form of knowledge (the counter-science) with a different way of perceiving and conceiving space. Focusing specifically on Calcutta's urban space, it will examine the correlation between space and epistemology in the novel through three spatial and gnoseological categories: borders, the labyrinth, and, finally, networks.

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Carlotta Beretta, Università degli Studi di Bologna


Carlotta Beretta is a PhD student at the University of Bologna. Her research interests include postcolonial literatures, cultural studies, world literature and geocriticism. She has published papers and reviews on Amitav Ghosh and Neel Mukherjee. Her research project concerns the representation of Calcutta in contemporary Indian English literature.

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2018-02-28

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Beretta, Carlotta. 2018. «Borders and Silence As Forms of Knowledge in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome». Altre Modernità, febbraio, 55-66. https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/9696.

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