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- Title
'Sharing Air' with 'Gandhi Toxin' during 'Exile' in '2099' AD: Manjula Padmanabhan's short stories.
- Authors
Khan, Sami Ahmad
- Abstract
This article studies four (science fiction [SF]) short stories written by Manjula Padmanabhan in order to draw linkages between the texts and their contemporary material realities. Using the theoretical framework of Darko Suvin's novum, it focuses on the extent to which contemporary discourses contour the narrative framework and thematic concerns of an SF text. Each story studied here represents at least one specific malady that afflicts contemporary India. This article seeks to locate and determine how Padmanabhan engages in social criticism, and how the self-aware delivery mechanism of SF is deployed for this sociopolitical indictment.
- Subjects
ENGLISH short stories; ENGLISH fiction -- History &; criticism; PADMANABHAN, Manjula; LITERARY criticism; SCIENCE fiction; SOCIAL criticism; IDEOLOGY
- Publication
Studies in South Asian Film & Media, 2015, Vol 6, Issue 2, p91
- ISSN
1756-4921
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/safm.6.2.91_1