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

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 Kankabati and 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