Science fiction in India : parallel worlds and postcolonial paradigms /: parallel worlds and postcolonial paradigms. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editors, Shweta Khilnani, Ritwick Bhattacharjee.
• Editors: Khilnani, Shweta; Bhattacharjee, Ritwick
• Contents: Introduction by Shweta Khilnani and Ritwick Bhattacharjee Three Prolegomena by Shweta Khilnani, Ritwick Bhattacharjee and Saikat Ghosh Book I: ParadigmsChapter 1: Steampunk Probes: Parody and the Allegorical Retrieval of History in Sumit Bardhan's Arthatrishna by Saikat GhoshChapter 2: Parallel 'Discoveries': (Re-) Constructing the 'Scientific' Enterprise in The Calcutta Chromosome by Jaya YadavChapter 3: Decolonising Encounters of the Indian Kind: Reading the Postcolonial 'Other' in Vandana Singh's The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories by Devapriya SanyalChapter 4: Green Men: Power, Dystopia and the Politics of Genre in Bengali Postcolonial SF by Subhadeep RayChapter 5: E Pur Si Muove: Towards a Decolonial Scholarship of Kalpavigyan Literature by Rajarshi RoyChapter 6: Actor-Network Theory and the Postcolonial: A Reading of Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome by Sayan ParialBook II: WorldsChapter 7: The Day After Tomorrow in Bengaluru: Environment, Global Climate Change and Dystopia(s) by Sami Ahmad Khan Chapter 8: 'The Sea Eats People': Capitalocenic Dystopia in Rimi B. Chatterjee's 'Arisudan' by Indrani Das Gupta and Shraddha A. Singh Chapter 9: Spectral Cities and Spectral Selves in Shockwave and Other Cyber Stories by Sanam Khanna Chapter 10: An Alternative Vision of Science: Intersections of Science, Sustainability and Feminism in Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's Sultana's Dream by Anu Susan Abraham and Antara ChatterjeeChapter 11: Women Who Think They Are Planets and Other Bodies: Feminist Interventions in Indian SF by Saloni Sharma Chapter 12: Who's Afraid of Postcolonial Dystopia? Reflections on Contemporary Science Fiction in India by Shikha VatsChapter 13: Remembering/Dismembering: Tenuous Utopic Formulations in Nur Nasreen Ibrahim's and Mimi Mondal's Short Stories by Srinjoyee DuttaChapter 14: Futurism in Indian Cinema: A Case Study of Anukul by Jigyasa H. SondhiChapter 15: 'The White City Turns Remaining Humans into Machines': Urban Dystopia and Posthumanism in Appupen's The Snake and the Lotus: A Halahala Adventure by Tanushree GhoshChapter 16: Taking (Back) Control: Surveillance and Power Politics in Prayaag Akbar's Leila and Samit Basu's Chosen Spirits by Anik Sarkar About the EditorsAbout the Contributors.
• Publisher Details: New Delhi : Bloomsbury India
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 891.1; Science fiction, Indic -- History and criticism; Science fiction, Indic (English) -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789354353437
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