[ecrea] Call for papers: Studies in South Asian Film and Media, special issue on Science Fiction

Call for Papers:


Studies in South Asian Film and Media, Special Issue on Science Fiction 
in South Asian Film, Media, Arts and Literature.





Although science fiction has been a popular literary genre in several 
South Asian languages it has received little critical attention. The 
absence is even more acute in the areas of cinema, theatre, radio, 
television, the visual arts, and new media. This lack of scholarship 
leads to the misassumption that science fiction has been of little 
consequence to the South Asian literary, cinematic and artistic 
imaginations. However, this has hardly been the case, as one realizes 
from the popularity of vernacular science fiction over at least two 
centuries of literary history. In more recent times,cinema, painting, 
installation art, graphic novels, plays, as well as radio and television 
series have drawn upon science fiction to generate new inquiries into 
time, space, history and memory, raising ontological questions about 
technology’s interface with the contemporary world.

This issue is an attempt to recover and assess the histories and 
imaginaries of science fiction in South Asia across a diverse range of 
mediatised, artistic and literary forms. It marks a small step towards 
calibrating the region’s scientific and technological imagination 
outside of a developmental paradigm. We seek to solicit contributions 
from scholars, filmmakers, artists, writers, as well as sci-fi 
enthusiasts offering historical and critical perspectives on significant 
texts, individuals, institutions, and themes that have shaped the 
cultural and artistic expression of science fiction across South Asia.



Dates and Submissions policy



Please write to (rashmi.sawhney /at/ gmail.com) or (aartiwani /at/ gmail.com) to 
discuss your ideas. Abstracts of 500 words along with an author bio 
should be emailed to us by the 5th of November 2014.



In addition to critical essays of 6000-8000 words, we also welcome 
shorter creative pieces of 2000-4000 words in the form of interviews, 
photo essays (B/W), speculative pieces, translations of short stories, 
and artists’ reflections on science-fiction influenced work.



The deadline for the first draft is 30th January 2015. All contributions 
will be peer-reviewed and the final submission will be due by 30thMarch. 
The issue will be published by June 2015.



All copyrights are to be cleared by the authors. Guidelines to the 
Intellect house-style are available 
athttp://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/MediaManager/File/style%20guide(journals)-1.pdf.


Do please circulate - thanks!



Best,

Rashmi

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Associate Professor
Dept. of Cinema Studies
School of Arts and Aesthetics
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi 110067

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