This study considers the recent surge of science fiction narratives from the postcolonial Third World as a utopian response to the spatial, political, and representational dilemmas that attend globalization.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Desire Called Postcolonial Science Fiction ‘Fictions Where a Man Could Live’: Worldlessness Against the Void in Salman Rushdie’s Grimus ‘The Only Way Out is Through’: Spaces of Narrative and the Narrative of Space in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber There’s No Splace Like Home: Domesticity, Difference, and the ‘Long Space’ of Short Fiction in Vandana Singh’s The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet Claiming the Futures That Are, or, The Cunning of History in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome and Manjula Padmanabhan’s Gandhi-Toxin Mob Zombies, Alien Nations, and Cities of the Undead: Monstrous Subjects and the Postmillennial Nomos in I am Legend and District 9 Third World Punks, or, Watch Out for the Worlds Behind You Conclusion: Reimagining the Material Selected Bibliography Index
About the author
ERIC SMITH is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA. He has published widely on Postcolonial and Modern/Postmodern British Literatures.
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