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020			_a9780143429067
028			_aAtlantic Publishers & Distributors _b;7/22,Ansari Road ,Daryaganj,New Delhi-110002 _c;1112563 _d;26/06/2020
028			_a: Brijwasi Book Distributors _b: H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi. _c: BW/00021 _d: 10/6/2024
082			_a809.9336 GHO
100			_aAmitav Ghosh
245			_aThe great derangement _b: climate change and the unthinkable _c/Amitav Ghosh
260			_aNew Delhi _b:Penguin Books Pvt.Ltd. _c,2016
300			_a196 pages _c; 23 cm
365			_b299
505			_aStories -- History -- Politics.
520			_aAre we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literature, history, and politics--to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature of today's climate events, Ghosh asserts, makes them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of serious literary fiction: hundred-year storms and freakish tornadoes simply feel too improbable for the novel; they are automatically consigned to other genres. In the writing of history, too, the climate crisis has sometimes led to gross simplifications; Ghosh shows that the history of the carbon economy is a tangled global story with many contradictory and counterintuitive elements. Ghosh ends by suggesting that politics, much like literature, has become a matter of personal moral reckoning rather than an arena of collective action. But to limit fiction and politics to individual moral adventure comes at a great cost. The climate crisis asks us to imagine other forms of human existence--a task to which fiction, Ghosh argues, is the best suited of all cultural forms. His book serves as a great writer's summons to confront the most urgent task of our time
650			_aLiterature
655			_aClimatic changes in literature.
700			_aAmitav Ghosh
942			_cBOOK
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