Indian Science Fiction
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Indian Science Fiction

Patterns, History and Hybridity

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Indian Science Fiction

Patterns, History and Hybridity

About this book

This study draws from postcolonial theory, science fiction criticism, utopian studies, genre theory, Western and Indian philosophy and history to propose that Indian science fiction functions at the intersection of Indian and Western cultures. The author deploys a diachronic and comparative approach in examining the multilingual science fiction traditions of India to trace the overarching generic evolutions, which he complements with an analysis of specific patterns of hybridity in the genre's formal and thematic elements – time, space, characters and the epistemologies that build the worlds in Indian science fiction. The work explores the larger patterns and connections visible despite the linguistic and cultural diversities of Indian science fiction traditions.

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Information

Publisher
University of Wales Press
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781786836663
eBook ISBN
9781786836687
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Asian Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Series Editors’ Preface
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. A Brief Chronology of Indian Science Fiction
  9. Introduction: To Mark or Not to Mark Territories
  10. 1. Genealogies: A Brief History of Indian SF
  11. 2. Cognitions and Estrangements: Epistemes and World Building in Indian SF
  12. 3. Other Times: Alternative Histories, Imagining the Future and Non-linear Temporalities
  13. 4. Other Spaces: Utopian Discourses and Non-expansionist Journeys
  14. 5. The Others: Aliens, Robots, Cyborgs and Other Others
  15. Conclusion: Close Encounters
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography: Primary Texts