Title
Own maps/imagined terrain : the emergence of science fiction in India
Document Type
Journal article
Source Publication
Extrapolation
Publication Date
2014
Volume
55
Issue
3
First Page
277
Last Page
297
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Abstract
The emergence of science fiction (sf) in Bengal in India is situated within the historical boundaries and intersections that mark a certain conjuncture with the arrival and subsequent entrenchment of colonial-Enlightenment science. This paper traces the specific responses to this form of science, and the appearance of sf as a narrative mode embodying a certain kind of ambivalence, that negotiates a space, an imagined territory, within the framework of colonial science. An analysis of a few early sf writings in Bengal, which outline the narrative trajectories evolving in Indian sf, locates this ambivalence.
DOI
10.3828/extr.2014.16
Print ISSN
00145483
E-ISSN
20477708
Publisher Statement
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Language
English
Recommended Citation
Bhattacharya, A., & Hiradhar, P. (2014). Own maps/imagined terrain: The emergence of science fiction in India. Extrapolation, 55(3), 277-297. doi: 10.3828/extr.2014.16
