Cosmopolitanism at home: Amitav Ghosh's the shadow lines

Journal of Commonwealth Literature

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 45-65

  Black, Shameem ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amitav Ghosh; Cosmopolitanism; Family; Home; South Asian literature; The shadow lines

Indexed keywords

EID: 47649088688     PISSN: 00219894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021989406068734     Document Type: Article

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