Mutating toward the future: The convergence of utopianism, postcolonial SF, and the postcontemporary longing for form in Amitav Ghosh's the Calcutta Chromosome

MFS - Modern Fiction Studies

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 773-795

  O'Connell, Hugh Charles ^a  

^a VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84872915178     PISSN: 00267724     EISSN: 1080658X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2012.0061     Document Type: Review

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