Is there such a thing as Indian Science Fiction? This book tries to identify some common elements
Although it covers works in only four languages, Suparno Banerjee’s ‘Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybridity’ is certainly a milestone. An image from Appupen s Legends of Halahala .
There has been a rising interest in Indian Science Fiction in recent years, with a number of critical studies and articles being published. Suparno Banerjee’s book,
Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybridity, marks a key milestone in this trend.
An attempt to critically analyse the history and structure of Indian Science Fiction is not an easy endeavour, with a number of challenges that need to addressed even before proceeding.
Winner of the prestigious Casa de las Américas Prize, this work spins a heartfelt story of an improbable relationship between an anthropologist and her charismatic Indigenous father.
When Aparecida Vilaça first traveled down the remote Negro River in Amazonia, she expected to come back with notebooks and tapes full of observations about the Indigenous Wari people but not with a new father. In
Paletó and Me, Vilaça shares her life with her adoptive Wari family, and the profound personal transformations involved in becoming kin.
Paletó unfailingly charming, always prepared with a joke shines with life in Vilaca s account of their unusual father-daughter relationship. Paletó was many things: he was a survivor, who lived through the arrival of violent invaders and diseases. He was a leader, who taught through laughter and care, spoke softly, yet was always ready to jump into the unknown. He could shift seamlessly between the roles of the observer and the observed, and in his
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