Post-Millennial Indian Speculative Fiction in English Desi Dystopias and Ideas of Belonging

[bookbb]

E. Dawson Varughese, "Post-Millennial Indian Speculative Fiction in English: Desi Dystopias and Ideas of Belonging"
English | ISBN: 1350241105 | 2025 | 200 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Exploring expressions of 'Indianness' buried within and scattered across post-millennial Indian speculative fiction in English, this book asks questions around what it means to 'belong' to an India of 'now' and what it might mean to belong to multiple Indias of the (near) future.

With dystopia, near-future, apocalyptic Indias and fantastical metropolises all imagined across this body of writing, Post-Millennial Indian Speculative Fiction in English traces economic, social and political transformations in post-2000 'New India' across these various narratives. Drawing on established notions of the speculative, Dawson Varughese argues for a recognized, post-millennial canon of Indian speculative writing in English which moves beyond Western-centric frames of reference, centring instead on Indian sensibilities, expressions of belonging
Read more

Download Links

This is the hidden content, please

• Zaloguj się
• lub
• Zarejestruj się