Amitav Ghosh's In An Antique Land: The Ethnographer- Historian and the Limits of Irony1

In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale

✍ Amitav Ghosh 📂 Fiction 📅 1993;1994, 🏛 Vintage 🌐 English ⚖ 223 KB 👁 2 views

Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even a

In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale

✍ Ghosh, Amitav 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Vintage 🌐 English ⚖ 218 KB

In a leisurely blend of travelogue, history and cross-cultural analysis, Indian writer Ghosh reconstructs a 12th-century master-slave relationship that confounds modern concepts of slavery. Abraham Ben Yiju, a prosperous Tunisian Jewish merchant based in medieval Cairo, resettled in Aden, then spent

Post-Colonial Melancholy: An Examination

Post-Colonial Melancholy: An Examination of Sadness in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines

✍ Ian Almond 📂 Article 📅 2004 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 German ⚖ 86 KB

An Account of the Late Discoveries of An

An Account of the Late Discoveries of Antiquities at Herculaneum, and of an Earthquake There; In a Letter from Camillo Paderni, Keeper of the Museum at Herculaneum, and F. R. S. to Tho. Hollis, Esq; F. R. S. Dated Portici, Feb. 1. 1758

✍ Paderni, C. 📂 Article 📅 1757 🏛 The Royal Society ⚖ 314 KB

An Account of the Late Discoveries of An

An Account of the Late Discoveries of Antiquities at Herculaneum, and of an Earthquake There; In a Letter from Camillo Paderni, Keeper of the Museum at Herculaneum, and F. R. S. to Tho. Hollis, Esq; F. R. S. Dated Portici, Feb. 1. 1758

✍ Camillo Paderni 📂 Article 📅 1757-1758 🏛 The Royal Society ⚖ 539 KB

The Conquest of Assyria: Excavations in

The Conquest of Assyria: Excavations in an Antique Land, 1840-1860by Mogens Trolle Larsen;From Nineveh to New York: The Strange Story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum and the Hidden Masterpiece at Canford Schoolby John Malcolm Russell; Judith McKenzie; Stephanie Dalley

✍ Review by: Peter T. Daniels 📂 Article 📅 1998 🏛 University of Chicago Press 🌐 English ⚖ 817 KB