Star Warriors of the Modern Raj
Materiality, Mythology and Technology of Indian Science Fiction
India is mutating - and its Science Fiction with it. Star Warriors of the Modern Raj is a critical catalogue of contemporary India's anglophone SF, a path-breaking work that flits between texts, vantage points and frameworks. An alternative to a Eurocentric perspective of SF, this study avoids essentialising definitions and delves into how the world of SF (text) intersects with that of the writer/reader. Fusing paradigms of Science Fiction Studies, South Asian Studies and Postcolonial Studies, among others, the book explicates how India and its SF negotiate one another. It evolves a 'transMIT thesis' to analyse how mythology (M), ideology (I)…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78683-764-6
- EAN: 9781786837646
- Produktnummer: 36760977
- Verlag: University of Wales Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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