Science Fiction and Indian Women Writers

ISBN-13: 9780367527761 / Miękka / 2023 / 178 str.

Urvashi Kuhad

Opis

This book presents a systematic study of Indian Women’s Science Fiction. It critically analyses the works of Rokeya Shekhawat Hossein, Manjula Padmanabhan, Priya Sarukkai Chabria and Vandana Singh.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Science Fiction as a Genre 2. Indian Science Fiction 3. Contemporary Indian Science Fiction Writers and their Works 4. Radical Elements and the use of Conjunctions 5. Contradictions through Disjunctions. Conclusion                 

O autorze

Urvashi Kuhad is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Ram Lal Anand College, University of Delhi, India. She was awarded a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Fellowship (2010–11) to visit the University of Texas at Austin, USA, where she served as a young ambassador to the host country. She was also invited for a graduate teaching assistantship to the University of Western Ontario, Canada in 2011–12. Dr Kuhad’s work has been published in several national and international publications on the intersections of identity and imagination. Her research taps into the latest developments in Indian science fiction to investigate its radical potential.