Fantasy and the Politics of Subversion: Speculative Writing in Colonial India (Perspectives on Fantasy) - Hardcover

Chakravorty, Mayurika

 
9781350401396: Fantasy and the Politics of Subversion: Speculative Writing in Colonial India (Perspectives on Fantasy)

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A study of the origins, nature and role of fantasy literature in early 19th century colonial India, this book explores how speculative writing was produced in the context of, and in resistance to, empire.

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Mayurika Chakravorty is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies (Childhood and Youth Studies program), Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She was a Felix doctoral scholar and holds a Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK. She was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge for the Easter Term, 2024. She researches and writes on fantasy and speculative literature; children's literature; and the representation of childhood and girlhood in literature and media.

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