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Title

Science fiction, imperialism and the third world : essays on postcolonial literature and film / edited by Ericka Hoagland and Reema Sarwal ; foreword by Andy Sawyer.

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Hoagland, Ericka, 1975-
• Sarwal, Reema.

Description

viii, 223 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Science fiction, American > History and criticism
• Science fiction, Indic (English) > History and criticism
• Science fiction, Mexican > History and criticism
• Science fiction films > History and criticism
• Imperialism in literature
• Postcolonialism in literature
• Literature and globalization
• Utopias in literature
• Dystopias in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : imperialism, the third world, and postcolonial science fiction / Ericka Hoagland and Reema Sarwal -- Re-inventing/alternate history. Postcolonial science fiction : the desert planet / Gerald Gaylard -- History deconstructed : alternative worlds in Steven Barnes's Lion's blood and Zulu heart / Juan F. Elices -- The Calcutta chromosome : a novel of silence, slippage and subversion / Suparno Banerjee -- Organization and the continuum : history in Vandana Singh's "Delhi" / Grant Hamilton -- Forms of protest. The colonial feminine in Pat Murphy's "His vegetable wife" / Diana Pharaoh Francis -- Body markets : the technologies of global capitalism and Manjula Padmanabhan's Harvest / Shital Pravinchandra -- "Smudged, distorted and hidden" : apocalypse as protest in indigenous speculative fiction / Roslyn Weaver -- Fresh representations. Sadhanbabu's Friends : science fiction in Bengal from 1882 to 1974 / Debjani Sengupta -- Critiquing economic and environmental colonization : globalization and science fiction in The moons of Palmares / Judith Leggatt -- Loonies and others in Robert A. Heinlein's The moon is a harsh mistress / Herbert G. Klein -- Science fiction, Hindu nationalism and modernity in India : Bollywood's Koi Mil Gaya / Dominic Alessio and Jessica Langer -- Utopia/Dystopia. The shapes of dystopia : boundaries, hybridity and the politics of power / Jessica Langer -- Narrative and dystopian forms of life in Mexican cyberpunk novel La primera calle de la soledad / Juan Ignacio Muñoz Zapata -- Octavia Butler's Parable of the sower : the third world as topos for a U.S. utopia / Gavin Miller.

ISBN

• 9780786447893 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 0786447893 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010023305

OCLC

607613301

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library