Fantasy and the Politics of Subversion
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-40139-6 (ISBN)
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Taking stock of Bengali texts previously designated as children’s literature, Mayurika Chakravorty examines the works of such authors as Sanjibchandra Chattopadhyay, Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay, Sukumar Ray and Parashuram (Rajshekhar Basu) and Sukumar Ray to shed light on how their writing offered stringent commentaries on the colonial situation whilst grappling with larger questions surrounding science, progress, the environment, ethics and morality. With a focus on how key works – previously omitted from the established canon of fantasy literature – were based on diverse classical streams from European, Persian, classical Sanskrit and local folk traditions, the book explores how speculative writers challenged the dominant literary tropes of both colonial (Western) and revivalist (Sanskrit) classicism.
In highlighting overlooked writing within Indian literary history and fantasy and children’s literature studies, Chakravorty demonstrates that in understanding these works in relation to one another, they provide evidence of compelling bodies of work produced in the context of, and in resistance to, empire.
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.
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction: Resisting Disenchantment
Chapter 2: Romance, Freedom, and Unreason: An Unorthodox Romantic in an Age of Reason
Chapter 3: Marvellous Encounters and Perilous Realms: Quest, Adventure, and Socio-political Critique
Chapter 4: The Logic of Nonsense: The Enchanted Realm of Sukumar Ray’s Ha-Ja-Ba-Ra-La and Other Writings
Chapter 5: Chemistry of the Intellect: Satire, Science, and Subversion
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.7.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Perspectives on Fantasy |
| Zusatzinfo | 10 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-40139-0 / 1350401390 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-40139-6 / 9781350401396 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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