Mary Ellis Gibs Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835-1 (Hardback) (US IMPORT)
Subtitle: Five Stories of Speculation, Resistance and Rebellion. Contributor: Mary Ellis Gibson (Edited by). The five stories presented in this collection, in their cultural and political contexts, help form a new picture of English language writing in India and a new understanding of the connections among science fiction, modernity and empire. [NP] Speculative fiction developed early in India in part because the intrinsic dysfunction and violence of colonialism encouraged writers there to project alternative futures, whether utopian or dystopic. They add an important dimension to our understanding of Victorian empire, science fiction and speculative fictional narratives.
They provide new examples of the imperial and the anti-imperial imaginations at work.