Mary Ellis (Hrsg.) Gibson

Science Fiction in Colonial India, 18351905

Five Stories of Speculation, Resistance and Rebellion

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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 Fictio… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78308-865-2
EAN: 9781783088652
Produktnummer: 30901583
Verlag: Anthem Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 184 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 686 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Mary Ellis Gibson is the Arthur Jeremiah Roberts Professor of Literature and chair of English at Colby College, USA. Her recent work focuses on the development of English language literature in colonial India. The author of Indian Angles: English Verse in Colonial India from Jones to Tagore' and the accompanying anthology Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780-1913, Gibson has edited several collections of fiction, including New Stories by Southern Women and Homeplaces: Stories of the South by Women Writers.