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Star Warriors of the Modern Raj Materiality, Mythology and Technology of Indian Science Fiction.
A path-breaking study of India's Science Fiction, which investigates how mythology, ideology and technology shape contemporary SF.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cardiff :
University of Wales Press,
2021.
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| Colección: | New dimensions in science fiction.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Series Editors' Preface
- Contents
- Series Editors' Preface
- Author's Note: A Swastika in a Red Dusk
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- Part 1: SF-101
- 1. Whoever Loses, SF Wins
- 2. INS Forward unto Delhi
- 3. Prayers in the Rain
- Part 2: Materiality
- Part 2 Prologue: The Altar of Alterity: The Others of ISFE
- 4. The Civilisational Other
- 5. The Social Other
- 6. The Gender(ed) Other
- Part 2 Epilogue: Materiality Strikes Back
- Part 3: Mythology
- Part 3 Prologue: Hey Bhagwan, the ET has Landed!
- 7. Aliens Time: Gods as Socio-political Indictments (From Other Temporal Locations)
- 9. Technology + Gods: Gods as Hyperintelligences (From Other Technological Axes)
- 10. Mythic ⇋ Scientific
- Part 3 Epilogue: Revenge of the Myth
- Part 4: Technology1
- Part 4 Prologue: Beat, Prey, Love
- 11. Genetic Manipulations: Genetic Engineering and Natural Selection in The Beast with Nine Billion Feet, The Butterfly Effect and 'The Tide Turns Again'
- 12. Cyberistan: Digital is the New Real in Domechild, 'Catatonic' and 'The Coward'
- 13. CBRN Warfare: Living the Apocalypse in 'Gandhi Toxin', 'Exile' and 'Taking a Shortcut'
- 14. Alien Disruptions1: ET 'Conservation Laws', 'Peripeteia' and 'The Tetrahedron'
- 15. Environmental Degradation: Global Climate Change in 'Rain', 'Sharing Air' and Leila
- Part 4 Epilogue: The Technology Awakens
- Part 5: Conclusion
- 16. ISFE: A New Hope
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Glossary
- Index
- Back Cover