Postcolonial science fiction: Amitav ghosh's the Calcutta chromosome

Journal of Commonwealth Literature

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 57-72

  Chambers, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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