What is it about?
The article expands the field of science fiction by studying the writings of Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, a major educationist in late-19th and early 20th-century Bengal.
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Why is it important?
The article examines the ‘intersectional’ that exists not only in terms of gender and community but also with respect to the reception of such writings and counter-production vis-à-vis colonial technological forms.
Perspectives
It expands investigations in the field by locating counter-cultural writings by Indians not simply within the public sphere of British colonialism but also the negotiations that gender and community often produced in these writings.
Dr Preet Hiradhar
Lingnan University
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This page is a summary of: The sentimental nightmare: The discourse of the scientific and the aesthetic in Rokeya S. Hossain’s “Sultana’s Dream”, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, May 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2019.1604403.
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