Science Fiction and Indian Women Writers: Exploring Radical Potentials

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction: Science fiction as a genre 1.1 Darko Suvin 1.2 Robert Scholes 1.3 Damien Broderick 1.4 Samuel Delany 1.5 Subgenres Notes Chapter 2: Indian science fiction 2.1 Science fiction in India 2.1.1 The beginning of science fiction in India 2.1.2 The history of science fiction in India 2.1.3 Science fiction in different languages 2.1.3.1 Science fiction in Bengali 2.1.3.2 Science fiction in Marathi 2.1.3.3 Science fiction in Gujarati 2.1.3.4 Science fiction in Kannada 2.1.3.5 Science fiction in Telugu 2.1.3.6 Science fiction in Odia 2.1.3.7 Science fiction in Tamil 2.2 The present state of science fiction in India other than literature 2.2.1 Film scripts, television serial scripts in Hindi 2.2.2 Film scripts, television serial scripts in other Indian languages 2.2.3 Publications: magazines, children’s literature, exhibitions etc. 2.2.4 The Indian Association of Science Fiction Studies 2.2.5 Indian Science Fiction Writers Association of India (ISFWA) 2.3 Indian science fiction: major themes 2.3.1 Social and environmental issues 2.3.2 Cloning 2.3.3 Mythology and Proto SF 2.3.4 Gender bias 2.3.5 Space travel 2.3.6 Technology in science fiction 2.3.7 LGBT themes 2.3.8 Love 2.3.9 Spirituality Notes Chapter 3: Contemporary Indian science fiction writers and their works 3.1 Writers in focus 3.1.1 Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain Family background and education Literary, political and educational activism 3.1.2 Manjula Padmanabhan Family background and education Literary, political and educational activism 3.1.3 Vandana Singh Family background and education Literary, political and educational activism Achievements 3.1.4 Priya Sarukkai Chabria Literary, political and educational activism 3.2 Introduction: writers and their works under investigation 3.2.1 Sultana’s Dream 41 3.2.2 Escape 3.2.3 Generation 14 3.2.4 Of Love and Other Monsters 3.2.5 Distances 3.3 Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain: Sultana’s Dream 3.3.1 Genre: feminist utopia 3.3.2 Issues and concerns 3.3.2.1 Education 3.3.2.2 Gender 3.3.2.3 Struggle against religious suppression 3.3.2.4 Struggle against political suppression 3.3.2.5 Scientific inventions in SFs 3.4 Manjula Padmanabhan: Escape 3.4.1 Genre: feminist dystopia 3.4.2 Issues and concerns 3.4.2.1 Setting 3.4.2.2 Female foeticide 3.4.2.3 Ecofeminist perspectives 3.4.2.4 Cloning 3.4.2.5 Scientific elements 3.5 Priya Sarukkai Chabria: Generation 14 3.5.1 Genre: dystopia 3.5.2 Issues and concerns 3.5.2.1 Cloning 3.5.2.2 Social issues 3.5.2.3 Environment and environmental pollution 3.5.2.4 Treatment of women 3.6 Vandana Singh: Distances and Of Love and Other Monsters 3.6.1 Genre: speculative science fiction 3.6.2 Issues and concerns in Distances 3.6.2.1 Alienation 3.6.2.2 Athmis 3.6.2.3 Sthanas and hyperspace 3.6.2.4 Love 3.6.3 Issues and concerns in Of Love and Other Monsters 3.6.3.1 Meta-mind 3.6.3.2 Love 3.6.3.3 Boundaries Notes Chapter 4: Radical elements and the use of conjunctions 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Different forms used as conjunctions 4.2.1 Word 4.2.2 Phrase 4.2.3 Expressions/Idiomatic expressions 4.2.4 Sentence(s) 4.2.5 Paragraph 4.2.6 Metaphor 4.2.7 Simile 4.2.8 Analogy 4.2.9 Subtheme as a conjunction 4.2.10 Character as a conjunction 4.2.11 Author’s personal observations 4.2.12 Author’s peculiar observations 4.2.13 Story Notes Chapter 5: Contradictions through disjunctions 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Conjunction as a disjunction 5.3 Different forms used as disjunctions 5.3.1 Word as a disjunction 5.3.2 Paragraph as a disjunction 5.3.3 Simile 5.3.4 Story 5.3.5 Disjunction becomes conjunction Notes Conclusion Notes Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources Index