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Research paper thumbnail of A Sense of the Historical Period: the Poetics of Opium in Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy

Research paper thumbnail of The Second Plane di Martin Amis e il dibattito su "The Age of Horrorism".

Martin Amis: uno scrittore controverso. 1 . Breve biografia e alcune opere principali. Martin Ami... more Martin Amis: uno scrittore controverso. 1 . Breve biografia e alcune opere principali. Martin Amis nasce il 25 agosto 1949, figlio dello scrittore Sir Kingsley Amis e di Hilary Bardwell. Ha un fratello maggiore, Philip, e una sorella minore, Sally, morta nel 2000. I suoi genitori divorziarono nel 1961, perciò fu la sua matrigna, Elizabeth Jane Howard, anch'ella scrittrice, ad avere grande influenza sulle prime letture di Amis. Laureato ad Oxford, lavorò inizialmente al The Times Literary Supplement e al New Statesman, dove incontrò l'amico Christopher Hitchens. Nel 1984 sposò Antonia Phillips, da cui ebbe due figli: Louis e Jacob. La coppia divorziò nel 1993 e nel 1996 Amis si risposò con la scrittrice Isabel Fonseca. Dal secondo matrimonio nacquero le figlie Fernanda e Clio. Amis ha anche un'altra figlia, Delilah, nata da una relazione con Lamorna Heath nel 1974. Attualmente vive tra Londra, l'Uruguay e New York. La carriera letteraria dello scrittore copre circa quattro decadi, dall'uscita del suo primo romanzo, The Rachel Papers, nel 1973, all'ultimo romanzo, Lionel Asbo: the State of England, attualmente in corso di pubblicazione. In tutto Amis ha scritto tredici romanzi, sette saggi, due raccolte di racconti e circa quattrocento tra recensioni e saggi brevi. Tra i suoi romanzi più importanti possiamo ricordare, oltre al già citato esordio The Rachel Papers, anche Money (1984) e

Peer-reviewed articles by Carlotta Beretta

Research paper thumbnail of Righting the Subalterns? Neel Mukherjee's The Lives of Others and the Naxalite Movement. Indialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies, Vol, 6, 2019

Indialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies , 2019

Research paper thumbnail of "Borders and Silence as Forms of Knowledge in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome". Altre Modernità - NUMERO SPECIALE CONfini CONtatti CONfronti (2018).

Research paper thumbnail of "Past Continuous / A Life Apart or a (dis)integration: Alienation, Transgression and the Grotesque Body in Neel Mukherjee's Novel". Altre Modernità N. 17 (2017).

What drives a migrant? And what is her/his place in society? Neel Mukherjee’s first novel, Past C... more What drives a migrant? And what is her/his place in society? Neel Mukherjee’s first novel, Past Continuous / A Life Apart, explores the complexities of the migratory experience and tries to answer these questions. The narrative unites the classic Oxford years’ account with the experience of illegal migration. As Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson point out in Border as Method (2013), European laws pose a deep dividing line between people who move to the continent (in its broader sense) to foster their education, and those who migrate to find a job and start a new life. However, Mukherjee’s novel demonstrates how easy it is to slip from one category to the other, and the terrible consequences that this can have on people’s lives.

This essay will analyse Past Continuous as a peculiar example of migrant literature. It will start by locating the novel into the genre of diaspora and migration literature. Then, it will examine it from three thematic viewpoints: alienation, the status of British women in India, and transgression.

Research paper thumbnail of A Genealogy of the Ibis Trilogy: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Bengali Culture - Crakow Indological Studies XVII (2015)

The tension between a local dimension and a more cosmopolitan one has become increasingly crucial... more The tension between a local dimension and a more cosmopolitan one has become increasingly crucial in Amitav Ghosh's writing. Whereas his earlier works, such as In an Antique Land, tended towards what was defined as a "subaltern cosmopolitanism" ), more recent novels show attention for a local dimension as well: Bengal.

Blog posts / Magazine articles by Carlotta Beretta

Research paper thumbnail of La vita degli altri di Neel Mukherjee - L'Indice

Research paper thumbnail of The Culture of Modernity: Pictures from Calcutta, The Oxford Culture Review

Research paper thumbnail of A Sense of the Historical Period: the Poetics of Opium in Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy

Research paper thumbnail of The Second Plane di Martin Amis e il dibattito su "The Age of Horrorism".

Martin Amis: uno scrittore controverso. 1 . Breve biografia e alcune opere principali. Martin Ami... more Martin Amis: uno scrittore controverso. 1 . Breve biografia e alcune opere principali. Martin Amis nasce il 25 agosto 1949, figlio dello scrittore Sir Kingsley Amis e di Hilary Bardwell. Ha un fratello maggiore, Philip, e una sorella minore, Sally, morta nel 2000. I suoi genitori divorziarono nel 1961, perciò fu la sua matrigna, Elizabeth Jane Howard, anch'ella scrittrice, ad avere grande influenza sulle prime letture di Amis. Laureato ad Oxford, lavorò inizialmente al The Times Literary Supplement e al New Statesman, dove incontrò l'amico Christopher Hitchens. Nel 1984 sposò Antonia Phillips, da cui ebbe due figli: Louis e Jacob. La coppia divorziò nel 1993 e nel 1996 Amis si risposò con la scrittrice Isabel Fonseca. Dal secondo matrimonio nacquero le figlie Fernanda e Clio. Amis ha anche un'altra figlia, Delilah, nata da una relazione con Lamorna Heath nel 1974. Attualmente vive tra Londra, l'Uruguay e New York. La carriera letteraria dello scrittore copre circa quattro decadi, dall'uscita del suo primo romanzo, The Rachel Papers, nel 1973, all'ultimo romanzo, Lionel Asbo: the State of England, attualmente in corso di pubblicazione. In tutto Amis ha scritto tredici romanzi, sette saggi, due raccolte di racconti e circa quattrocento tra recensioni e saggi brevi. Tra i suoi romanzi più importanti possiamo ricordare, oltre al già citato esordio The Rachel Papers, anche Money (1984) e

Research paper thumbnail of Righting the Subalterns? Neel Mukherjee's The Lives of Others and the Naxalite Movement. Indialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies, Vol, 6, 2019

Indialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies , 2019

Research paper thumbnail of "Borders and Silence as Forms of Knowledge in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome". Altre Modernità - NUMERO SPECIALE CONfini CONtatti CONfronti (2018).

Research paper thumbnail of "Past Continuous / A Life Apart or a (dis)integration: Alienation, Transgression and the Grotesque Body in Neel Mukherjee's Novel". Altre Modernità N. 17 (2017).

What drives a migrant? And what is her/his place in society? Neel Mukherjee’s first novel, Past C... more What drives a migrant? And what is her/his place in society? Neel Mukherjee’s first novel, Past Continuous / A Life Apart, explores the complexities of the migratory experience and tries to answer these questions. The narrative unites the classic Oxford years’ account with the experience of illegal migration. As Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson point out in Border as Method (2013), European laws pose a deep dividing line between people who move to the continent (in its broader sense) to foster their education, and those who migrate to find a job and start a new life. However, Mukherjee’s novel demonstrates how easy it is to slip from one category to the other, and the terrible consequences that this can have on people’s lives.

This essay will analyse Past Continuous as a peculiar example of migrant literature. It will start by locating the novel into the genre of diaspora and migration literature. Then, it will examine it from three thematic viewpoints: alienation, the status of British women in India, and transgression.

Research paper thumbnail of A Genealogy of the Ibis Trilogy: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Bengali Culture - Crakow Indological Studies XVII (2015)

The tension between a local dimension and a more cosmopolitan one has become increasingly crucial... more The tension between a local dimension and a more cosmopolitan one has become increasingly crucial in Amitav Ghosh's writing. Whereas his earlier works, such as In an Antique Land, tended towards what was defined as a "subaltern cosmopolitanism" ), more recent novels show attention for a local dimension as well: Bengal.

Research paper thumbnail of La vita degli altri di Neel Mukherjee - L'Indice

Research paper thumbnail of The Culture of Modernity: Pictures from Calcutta, The Oxford Culture Review