Indian Science Fiction : Patterns, History and Hybridity
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| Title: | Indian Science Fiction : Patterns, History and Hybridity |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Suparno Banerjee |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Science fiction, Indic--History and criticism, Science fiction, Indic (English)--History and criticism |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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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| ISBN: | 9781786836670 9781786836687 |
