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- Publisher: Anthem Press
- ISBN-10: 178308863X
- ISBN-13: 9781783088638
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.4 cm, hardcover
- Language: English
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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 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.
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- Publisher: Anthem Press
- ISBN-10: 178308863X
- ISBN-13: 9781783088638
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.4 cm, hardcover
- Language: English English
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.
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