Though science fiction is often thought of as a Western phenomenon, the genre has long had a foothold in countries as diverse as India and Mexico. These fourteen critical essays examine both the role of science fiction in the third world and the role of the third world in science fiction. Topics covered include science fiction in Bengal, the genre's portrayal of Native Americans, Mexican cyberpunk fiction, and the undercurrents of colonialism and Empire in traditional science fiction. The intersections of science fiction theory and postcolonial theory are explored, as well as science fiction's…mehr
Though science fiction is often thought of as a Western phenomenon, the genre has long had a foothold in countries as diverse as India and Mexico. These fourteen critical essays examine both the role of science fiction in the third world and the role of the third world in science fiction. Topics covered include science fiction in Bengal, the genre's portrayal of Native Americans, Mexican cyberpunk fiction, and the undercurrents of colonialism and Empire in traditional science fiction. The intersections of science fiction theory and postcolonial theory are explored, as well as science fiction's contesting of imperialism and how the third world uses the genre to recreate itself. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Ericka Hoagland is an assistant professor of English at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. Reema Sarwal is a research scholar in New Delhi, India. She has taught as a lecturer at Miranda House, University of Delhi and is now pursuing her Ph.D in contemporary Australian fantasy fiction at Jawaharlal Nehru University.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Andy Sawyer Introduction: Imperialism, the Third World, and Postcolonial Science Fiction Ericka Hoagland and Reema Sarwal Part One: Re-inventing/Alternate History 1. Postcolonial Science Fiction: The Desert Planet Gerald Gaylard 2. History Deconstructed: Alternative Worlds in Steven Barnes's Lion's Blood and Zulu Heart Juan F. Elices 3. The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Silence, Slippage and Subversion Suparno Banerjee 4. Organization and the Continuum: History in Vandana Singh's "Delhi" Grant Hamilton Part Two: Forms of Protest 5. The Colonial Feminine in Pat Murphy's "His Vegetable Wife" Diana Pharaoh Francis 6. Body Markets: The Technologies of Global Capitalism and Manjula Padmanabhan's Harvest Shital Pravinchandra 7. "Smudged, Distorted and Hidden": Apocalypse as Protest in Indigenous Speculative Fiction Roslyn Weaver Part Three: Fresh Representations 8. Sadhanbabu's Friends: Science Fiction in Bengal from 1882 to 1974 Debjani Sengupta 9. Critiquing Economic and Environmental Colonization: Globalization and Science Fiction in The Moons of Palmares Judith Leggatt 10. Loonies and Others in Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Herbert G. Klein 11. Science Fiction, Hindu Nationalism and Modernity: Bollywood's Koi... Mil Gaya Dominic Alessio and Jessica Langer Part Four: Utopia/Dystopia 12. The Shapes of Dystopia: Boundaries, Hybridity and the Politics of Power Jessica Langer 13. Narrative and Dystopian Forms of Life in Mexican Cyberpunk Novel La Primera Calle de la Soledad Juan Ignacio Muñoz Zapata 14. Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower : The Third World as Topos for a U.S. Utopia Gavin Miller About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Andy Sawyer Introduction: Imperialism, the Third World, and Postcolonial Science Fiction Ericka Hoagland and Reema Sarwal Part One: Re-inventing/Alternate History 1. Postcolonial Science Fiction: The Desert Planet Gerald Gaylard 2. History Deconstructed: Alternative Worlds in Steven Barnes's Lion's Blood and Zulu Heart Juan F. Elices 3. The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Silence, Slippage and Subversion Suparno Banerjee 4. Organization and the Continuum: History in Vandana Singh's "Delhi" Grant Hamilton Part Two: Forms of Protest 5. The Colonial Feminine in Pat Murphy's "His Vegetable Wife" Diana Pharaoh Francis 6. Body Markets: The Technologies of Global Capitalism and Manjula Padmanabhan's Harvest Shital Pravinchandra 7. "Smudged, Distorted and Hidden": Apocalypse as Protest in Indigenous Speculative Fiction Roslyn Weaver Part Three: Fresh Representations 8. Sadhanbabu's Friends: Science Fiction in Bengal from 1882 to 1974 Debjani Sengupta 9. Critiquing Economic and Environmental Colonization: Globalization and Science Fiction in The Moons of Palmares Judith Leggatt 10. Loonies and Others in Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Herbert G. Klein 11. Science Fiction, Hindu Nationalism and Modernity: Bollywood's Koi... Mil Gaya Dominic Alessio and Jessica Langer Part Four: Utopia/Dystopia 12. The Shapes of Dystopia: Boundaries, Hybridity and the Politics of Power Jessica Langer 13. Narrative and Dystopian Forms of Life in Mexican Cyberpunk Novel La Primera Calle de la Soledad Juan Ignacio Muñoz Zapata 14. Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower : The Third World as Topos for a U.S. Utopia Gavin Miller About the Contributors Index
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