Search Results for speculative fiction

...Neville Hoad This essay analyzes Lauren Beukes's 2010 novel, Zoo City , as a complicated set of allegories of environmental disaster, HIV/AIDS, xenophobic violence, and contemporary African identity. It argues that Zoo City , as a speculative fiction of sorts, is deeply informed by South African...

... shifts our focus to an urban context and analyzes Lauren Beukes’s dystopian speculative fiction novel Zoo City and its allegories of environmental disaster, HIV/AIDS, xenophobic violence, and belonging. Clare Counihan’s interview with artist Nomusa Makhubu reflects on the role of the artist...

... in Lahore, and towers in Karachi, this collection unsettles borders, writing across South Asian nations and contested territories together to name architectures operating in archival registers. Through habitations and speculations, it reimagines pasts and futures, recasting the architectural beyond...

... that “among the Islamic jurists, it is the amount paid in salam (forward buying) such as the dirhams paid now for what will be acquired in its time in terms of wheat and the like.” 8 Leaving aside questions of interest and speculation, al-Bustānī defines capital in 1870 in an idiom that straddles...

...Stine Simonsen Puri In this article I focus on prediction in an Indian gambling market. The article is based on my long-term fieldwork at Delhi Racecourse, which offered a microcosm in which to examine speculations on future uncertainty. I argue that these speculations are oriented toward...

.... In the late Ottoman context, the novel was articulated in terms of conceptual separations (primarily as truth/imitation–fiction/creation, which then develops into nature-beauty and romance-realism binaries). Such conceptual divides inform both the history and the theory of the novel by Ottoman intellectuals...

... article uncovers the emergence of a housing and rent market in Calcutta predicated on notions of housing rights as an outgrowth of worker protest and militancy, on the one hand, and market speculation in land and housing on the other. This tension opened up a space for colonial intervention, one that drew...

... of their family life” must have fueled their battles in court (47–48). Yet our understanding of these motivations remains speculative. Occupying the fault line between historical narrative and fiction, Doumani uses these conditional asides to gesture toward the rich inner lives of his subjects while also flagging...

... studio and art residency program based in Beit Sahour, Palestine. DAAR's work combines conceptual speculations and pragmatic spatial interventions, discourse, and collective learning. 14. Riwaq, “Cultural Heritage of Palestine.” 13. Riwaq Biennale, “Previous Editions.” 12. Amiry...

... of the 1980s, he con- cial and economic justice. All these forms of social tends, was much more preoccupied with speculations oppression and exploitation were seen by many to be of the future. He also suggests that black fiction writ- thoroughly interconnected in the South African case; ers were more...

... a unique political arrangement (“two kings”) was expressed by courtiers, chroniclers, and poets in the language of a stylized fiction of love. The article tries to make meaning of the “two kings” problem by looking at a set of textual and visual materials and situates them within a context of “multilayered...

... for fiction and autobiography as “le- according to which the production of poetry falls gitimate” modes of theorizing (37). Many of us re- to the share of Dalit knowledge workers, while the- spond to literary texts as mediating experience and ory continues...

... even the most disinterested un- unfolding of the Aryan model of history and the dergraduate’s interest)—one can only speculate as Oriental Renaissance” (13), assesses the new nine- to the discrepancy in pricing. teenth-century disciplines...

.... © 2012 by Duke University Press The Aryan arrival in India is associated with the compilation of poems of a mystical and speculative nature titled the Rig- Veda. I begin, therefore, by focusing on how the notion of the Aryan developed through a continued rearticulation of the authority...

... . 12. Even in this milieu, a variety of fictions could be brought into play to cross religious boundaries. For instance, in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Muslim mercenaries fighting for Christian kings in Spain and Portugal did so under the pretense that since they were only fighting...

...Dan Ojwang East African Indian fiction, or rather fiction by East African writers of South Asian origin, presents memorable images of ceaseless wandering through strange territory, flight from home-spaces, violent expulsions, and the networks—imaginative and literal—that link the resultant diaspora...

... with respect to Orient and portrayed it in their own research, travel the major Western crimes against humanity committed writing, explorations, and academic publications. Indeed, during the past century.1 in comparison to various more recent fictional attempts Edward Said’s lengthy...

... archive of the developmental state. The projective capacity of architectural knowledge enables this article to speculate on this archive of fantasy and thus interrogate infrastructure, modernization, and development, not as normative categories, but as aesthetic techniques. These produced for the Indian...

... everyone by announcing that the Indian government and the NSCN-IM had agreed on the idea of sharing “sovereign powers.” Indian officials had hoped to keep the content of the negotiations under wraps until a final settlement was reached. There was immediately speculation in the Indian media following...

... for jihad against the British. Such foolhardy confrontation against a powerful colonial state will only invite self-destruction, Khan had argued, while speculating that such catastrophic ideas were planted by Gandhi as part of his designs to politically and financially cripple Indian Muslims. But most...