Star Warriors of the Modern Raj
Materiality, Mythology and Technology of Indian Science Fiction
1st Edition
Published on 15. June 2021
272 pages
978-1-78683-763-9 (ISBN)
Description
India is mutating - and its Science Fiction (SF) 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 male 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) and technology (T) contour Indian SF and its fictional reimaginings. This study identifies the manifestations of divine beings within SF (as differing epistemological categories), locates the modes of marginalisation within Indian popular imagination (as altars of alterity), and then proceeds to analyse how newer technologies engage with socio-political anxieties in (and through) SF.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Wales
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
yes
File size
4,65 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78683-763-9 (9781786837639)
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Sami Ahmad Khan
Star Warriors of the Modern Raj
Materiality, Mythology and Technology of Indian Science Fiction
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06/2021
University of Wales Press
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Person
Sami Ahmad Khan is a novelist, academic and documentary producer. Sami is the recipient of a Fulbright grant to the University of Iowa, and holds a PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi. His future-war debut Red Jihad won two literary awards, and his second novel Aliens in Delhi garnered rave reviews; he has taught at IIT Delhi, Jindal Global University and JNU, and presently discusses life and literature at GGS Indraprastha University, Delhi.
Content
Author's Note
List of Illustrations-- 3 ('IN situ Model', 'transMIT thesis' and 'TIMography')
List of Tables-- 1 (ISFE's Soul)
Content Acknowledgements
Part I (SF-101)
Part II (Materiality)
Section Prologue: The Altar of Alterity
Section Epilogue: The Materiality Menace
Part III (Mythology)
Section Prologue: Hey Bhagwan, the ET has Landed!
Section Epilogue: Revenge of the Myth
Part IV (Technology)
Section Prologue: Beat, Prey, Love
Section Epilogue: The Technology Awakens
Part V (Conclusion)
Works Cited
Glossary
List of Illustrations-- 3 ('IN situ Model', 'transMIT thesis' and 'TIMography')
List of Tables-- 1 (ISFE's Soul)
Content Acknowledgements
Part I (SF-101)
Part II (Materiality)
Section Prologue: The Altar of Alterity
Section Epilogue: The Materiality Menace
Part III (Mythology)
Section Prologue: Hey Bhagwan, the ET has Landed!
Section Epilogue: Revenge of the Myth
Part IV (Technology)
Section Prologue: Beat, Prey, Love
Section Epilogue: The Technology Awakens
Part V (Conclusion)
Works Cited
Glossary
