Science Fiction and Indian Women Writers: Exploring Radical Potentials [Paperback]

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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

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

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 (201011) 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 201112. Dr Kuhads 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.

Science fiction, as a literature of fantasy, goes beyond the mundane to ask the question: what if the world were different from the way it is? It often challenges the real, builds on imagination, places no limits on human capacities, and encourages readers to think outside their social and cultural conditioning.

This book presents a systematic study of Indian womens science fiction. It offers a critical analysis of the works of four female Indian writers of science fiction: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Manjula Padmanabhan, Priya Sarukkai Chabria and Vandana Singh. The author considers not only the evolution of science fiction writing in India, but also discusses the&ls?