Fantasy and the Politics of Subversion: Speculative Writing in Colonial India by Chakravorty, Mayurika

Fantasy and the Politics of Subversion: Speculative Writing in Colonial India (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350401396)

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Fantasy and the Politics of Subversion: Speculative Writing in Colonial India by Chakravorty, Mayurika

Fantasy and the Politics of Subversion: Speculative Writing in Colonial India

$115.00
Fantasy and the Politics of Subversion: Speculative Writing in Colonial India by Chakravorty, Mayurika

Fantasy and the Politics of Subversion: Speculative Writing in Colonial India

$115.00
Format: Hardcover
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Contents
A Note on Translation, Transliterations, Names, and References
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1
Introduction
Chapter 2
Resisting Disenchantment: Imagination, Cultural Endurance and the Rise of the Novel in Nineteenth Century Bengal
Chapter 3
An Unorthodox Romantic: Beauty, Freedom, and Unreason in Sanjibchandra Chattopadhyay's Kanthamala, Madhabilata and Other Writings
Chapter 4
Of Fever, Delirium and Fantastic Sojourn: A Study of Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay's Kankabatiand Other Stories
Chapter 5
The Logic of Nonsense: The Enchanted Realm of Sukumar Ray's Ha-Ja-Ba-Ra-La and Other Writings
Chapter 6
Chemistry of the Intellect: Satire, Fantasy, and Subversion in the Fictional Works of Parashuram
Epilogue
Bibliography
Appendix

Author: Mayurika Chakravorty
ISBN-10: 1350401390
ISBN-13: 9781350401396
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 12/11/2025
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
By Mayurika Chakravorty
By Mayurika Chakravorty
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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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