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Indian Science Fiction

2020-10-15 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2020-10-15
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Book Synopsis Indian Science Fiction by : Suparno Banerjee

Download or read book Indian Science Fiction written by Suparno Banerjee. This book was released on 2020-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Science Fiction in Colonial India, 18351905

2019-03-30 Literary Collections
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Release : 2019-03-30
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Book Synopsis Science Fiction in Colonial India, 18351905 by : Mary Ellis Gibson

Download or read book Science Fiction in Colonial India, 18351905 written by Mary Ellis Gibson. This book was released on 2019-03-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835–1905" shows, for the first time, how science fiction writing developed in India years before the writings of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. The five stories presented in this collection, in their cultural and political contexts, help form a new picture of English language writing in India and a new understanding of the connections among science fiction, modernity and empire. [NP] Speculative fiction developed early in India in part because the intrinsic dysfunction and violence of colonialism encouraged writers there to project alternative futures, whether utopian or dystopic. The stories in "Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835–1905," created by Indian and British writers, responded to the intellectual ferment and political instabilities of colonial India. They add an important dimension to our understanding of Victorian empire, science fiction and speculative fictional narratives. They provide new examples of the imperial and the anti-imperial imaginations at work.

The Scientific Indian Science Fiction Anthology

2010-06-09 Fiction
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Release : 2010-06-09
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Scientific Indian Science Fiction Anthology by : Selva Selva

Download or read book The Scientific Indian Science Fiction Anthology written by Selva Selva. This book was released on 2010-06-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of science fiction stories originally appeared at thescian.com. They were winning entries sent by authors for the yearly science fiction story contest organized by The Scientific Indian between 2006 and 2009.

Star Warriors of the Modern Raj

2021-06-15 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2021-06-15
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Book Synopsis Star Warriors of the Modern Raj by : Sami Ahmad Khan

Download or read book Star Warriors of the Modern Raj written by Sami Ahmad Khan. This book was released on 2021-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is one of the first books of its kind, one that investigates the role of mythology, technology and politics/ideology/materiality in Indian Science Fiction. Reads Science Fiction as existing in a flux generated by socio-historical forces, technological advances, and a mythological tradition, which leads to a more holistic understanding of Science Fiction and the society in which it is produced and consumed. It connects the world of the Science fiction text with the world(s) of the writer/reader, which generates Suvinian ‘cognitive estrangement’. It hybridises viewpoints from across the world, whether creative (i.e. it borrows from author interviews given to the writer) or critical perspectives (i.e. it transposes and fuses globally established theories/frameworks on Science Fiction).

O.M.: The Indian Science Fiction Anthology

2023-12-16 Fiction
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Release : 2023-12-16
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Book Synopsis O.M.: The Indian Science Fiction Anthology by : Archana Mirajkar,

Download or read book O.M.: The Indian Science Fiction Anthology written by Archana Mirajkar, . This book was released on 2023-12-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coronavirus Pandemic was the single biggest battle of humanity against the unseen. Whenever the world has ever needed answers to some prominent questions, it has either turned to history or the imagination of philosophers, scientists and also the fictionists. Science Fiction, as a genre, aims to unlock the limitations created by the 'known' and the 'real', and explore the plausible with a backdrop of experience and observation. Few of the most revered Indian Science-Fictionists have created their own renditions of the Cavid-19 story of India, predicting the best-cases, worst-cases as well as other scenarios that we could have had to face. The essence of these stories is in 'how we would have arrived at that stage and what we would have done before and after it. The more we got to learn abou the virus, the less we seemed to know about the beings of the Universe as well as our own future. And with such a rising uncertainty, all we could do was hope for the best and be prepared for the worst. -RISHABH DUBEY 'KRIDIOUS

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