Suparno Banerjee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3919383 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suparno Banerjee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suparno |
| FAMILY NAME | Banerjee |
| SIGNATURE | BANERJEE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University Agricultural Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reverse Colonization
Reviewed by: Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-Victimhood by David M. Higgins Suparno Banerjee Paranoid Victimhood in Anglo-American SF. David M. Higgins. Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-Victimhood. U of Iowa P, 2021. x+ 2346 pp. $39.95 pbk & ebk. Since the first decade of this century, critical conversations in Western academia have been examining sf's problematic relationships with…
A Pioneering Study of Indian Science Fiction
163 BOOKS IN REVIEW sixth chapter extends this work on cinema to examine the 1956 and 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers films. The authors surprisingly but compellingly recontextualize plant horror as a little less horrific, showing how the genre “responds to the longer speculative tradition we outline in this book, one that aims at animating the plant—first by revealing that its mechanisms are compatible with those of the universe, then by att…
Indian Science Fiction
Examining Alternate Histories
499 BOOKS IN REVIEW Examining Alternate Histories. Glyn Morgan and C. Palmer-Patel, eds. Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2019. 203 pp. $120 hc. Glyn Morgan and C. Palmer-Patel’s new anthology Sideways in Time, which was nominated for a 2019 British Science Fiction Association Award in the nonfiction category (although it did not win), brings together an array of wellrespected scholars in th…
Dale KnickerbockerLingua Cosmica
416 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 46 (2019) to, as is the work of Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange [1962] and 1985 [1978]), and of the rather obscure D.G. Barron. The book is at its best when Hammond allows himself two pages on authors (Doris Lessing and Angela Carter) but at its weakest when listing out of context snippets of quotations from D.G. Compton, Richard Cowper, or Christopher Priest, whose works can only be identified in some case…
Crossing the Border
Melodrama, mimicry, and menace
In the last 10 years science fiction (sf) movies have seen a perceptible increase in the Indian film industries. Although this rise in the number of sf films reflects Indian society's changing concepts of science, technology and rationality in the context of the country's rapid development in the industrial and scientific sectors, an undeniable cause is the influence of Hollywood blockbusters, through direct and indirect borrowing and reinventing…
Other tomorrows
In this dissertation I argue that science fiction as a genre intervenes in the history-oriented discourse of postcolonial Anglophone Indian literature and refocuses attention on the nation's future-its position in global politics, its shifting religious and social values, its rapid industrialization, the clash between orthodoxy and modernity, and ultimately the dream of a multicultural nation. Anglophone Indian science fiction also indicates Indi…
Other tomorrows
In this dissertation I argue that science fiction as a genre intervenes in the history-oriented discourse of postcolonial Anglophone Indian literature and refocuses attention on the nation's future-its position in global politics, its shifting religious and social values, its rapid industrialization, the clash between orthodoxy and modernity, and ultimately the dream of a multicultural nation. Anglophone Indian science fiction also indicates Indi…
Melodrama, mimicry, and menace
In the last 10 years science fiction (sf) movies have seen a perceptible increase in the Indian film industries. Although this rise in the number of sf films reflects Indian society's changing concepts of science, technology and rationality in the context of the country's rapid development in the industrial and scientific sectors, an undeniable cause is the influence of Hollywood blockbusters, through direct and indirect borrowing and reinventing…
Other tomorrows
In this dissertation I argue that science fiction as a genre intervenes in the history-oriented discourse of postcolonial Anglophone Indian literature and refocuses attention on the nation's future-its position in global politics, its shifting religious and social values, its rapid industrialization, the clash between orthodoxy and modernity, and ultimately the dream of a multicultural nation. Anglophone Indian science fiction also indicates Indi…
Melodrama, mimicry, and menace
In the last 10 years science fiction (sf) movies have seen a perceptible increase in the Indian film industries. Although this rise in the number of sf films reflects Indian society's changing concepts of science, technology and rationality in the context of the country's rapid development in the industrial and scientific sectors, an undeniable cause is the influence of Hollywood blockbusters, through direct and indirect borrowing and reinventing…
Crossing the Border
Dale KnickerbockerLingua Cosmica
416 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 46 (2019) to, as is the work of Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange [1962] and 1985 [1978]), and of the rather obscure D.G. Barron. The book is at its best when Hammond allows himself two pages on authors (Doris Lessing and Angela Carter) but at its weakest when listing out of context snippets of quotations from D.G. Compton, Richard Cowper, or Christopher Priest, whose works can only be identified in some case…
Indian Science Fiction
Examining Alternate Histories
499 BOOKS IN REVIEW Examining Alternate Histories. Glyn Morgan and C. Palmer-Patel, eds. Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2019. 203 pp. $120 hc. Glyn Morgan and C. Palmer-Patel’s new anthology Sideways in Time, which was nominated for a 2019 British Science Fiction Association Award in the nonfiction category (although it did not win), brings together an array of wellrespected scholars in th…
A Pioneering Study of Indian Science Fiction
163 BOOKS IN REVIEW sixth chapter extends this work on cinema to examine the 1956 and 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers films. The authors surprisingly but compellingly recontextualize plant horror as a little less horrific, showing how the genre “responds to the longer speculative tradition we outline in this book, one that aims at animating the plant—first by revealing that its mechanisms are compatible with those of the universe, then by att…
Reverse Colonization
Reviewed by: Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-Victimhood by David M. Higgins Suparno Banerjee Paranoid Victimhood in Anglo-American SF. David M. Higgins. Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-Victimhood. U of Iowa P, 2021. x+ 2346 pp. $39.95 pbk & ebk. Since the first decade of this century, critical conversations in Western academia have been examining sf's problematic relationships with…
History (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction (3 works) · Classics (2 works)