Science Fiction in India: Parallel Worlds and Postcolonial Paradigms - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 935435338X ISBN 13: 9789354353383

Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic India, 2022

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Seeks to interrogate the different kinds of science fiction narratives produced in India, especially in view of the nation's history, spatiality, governmentality, and post-coloniality.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Shweta Khilnani is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College, University of Delhi. She is a PhD scholar at the Department of English, University of Delhi and her dissertation explores the nexus between the literary, the affective and the political with respect to digital narratives. She is interested in the study of popular cultures and theories of contemporary literature. She is the co-editor of Imagining Worlds, Mapping Possibilities: Select Science Fiction Stories.

Ritwick Bhattacharjee is an assistant professor at the Department of English, Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College, University of Delhi, New Delhi. His research has been located around fantasy, philosophy, phenomenology, horror fiction, science fiction, Indian English novels and disability studies. He is the author of Humanity's Strings: Being, Pessimism, and Fantasy and a co-editor of Horror Fictions of the Global South: Cultures, Narratives and Representations with Saikat Ghosh, What Makes it Pop? Introduction to Studies in Popular Fiction with Srinjoyee Dutta, Science Fiction in India: Parallel Worlds and Postcolonial Paradigms with Shweta Khilnani and Reclaiming the Disabled Subject: Representing Disability in Short Fiction with Someshwar Sati and G.J.V. Prasad. He has been awarded the Prof. Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Award for his essay titled 'Politics of Translation: Disability, Language, and the Inbetween' published in the book Disability in Translation: The Indian Experience. His book Science Fiction in India: Parallel Worlds and Postcolonial Paradigms has been awarded the best academic book published in 2022 by the Federation of Indian Publishers and has been nominated for BLS book of the year and 2023 Idaho University Teaching Literature Book Award.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic India
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 935435338X
• ISBN 13: 9789354353383
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 276
• Herausgeber: Khilnani Shweta, Bhattacharjee Ritwick
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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