Burnett
In the introduction to her edited anthology So Long Been Dreaming (2004), Nalo Hopkinson argues that postcolonial voices must engage with speculative fiction. While the genre has a long and deeply problematic history of depicting conquest and colonialism as glorious enterprises, Hopkinson rather sug...
Ashik Mahmud
AI or Artificial Intelligence, beyond technical and scientific application, is one of the most common grounds of technological ideas explored in science fiction films as well as cyberpunk novels. Contemporary science fiction films and novels offer technological adventures where the boundary of human...
Md. Shafiqul Islam
This paper attempts a cybercritical reading of William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer (1984) to explore the genesis of cyborgs in the novel, address issues pertaining to cyberpunks and scrutinize the portrayal of a cyberculture set in the futuristic dystopian city of Chiba. The relationship between huma...
George D. Catalano, Caroline Baillie
A recent death of a beloved member of one of our immediate families has served as a catalyst for our reflection on not only the nature of our work but also upon our approach to the issue of reforms in engineering and engineering education which are desperately needed. In engineering we often speak o...
Lorna Fitzsimmons
This article argues that Monica Ali makes extensive use of ecologically themed parallelism in her novel Brick Lane (2003). Ali uses this parallel structure to engage ecological, health, and social problems in East Pakistan, Bangladesh, and London. The parallelism serves to construct a larger ecologi...
Twelve visions of living in a climate-changed world. We are living in the Anthropocene—an era of dramatic and violent climate change featuring warming oceans, melting icecaps, extreme weather events, habitat loss, species extinction, and more. What will life be like in a climate-changed world? In To...
Sanyat Sattar, Abu Saleh Md. Rafi
Hu Weiyi, Yi Wang
Mohammad Rahmatullah
Mohammad Rahmatullah
Rabby Imam
<p class="ql-align-justify">This study examines how mechanisms of power operate in dystopian literature by applying Michel Foucault’s concept of Panopticism and Posthumanist theory to George Orwell’s <em>1984</em> and Aldous Huxley’s <em>Brave New World</em>. The study ...
Mahbuba Sarker Shama
In the last three decades, numerous literary works have been written on the lives of African Americans living in the twentieth-century capitalist United States of America. Nobel Prize winning African American author Toni Morrison, in her novels Beloved (1987) and The Bluest Eye (1970) portray the mi...
ICON - Modern and Contemporary Literature, Merve Tabur, Sami Ahmad Khan
The Speculative Route explores speculative traditions and science fictional modes across South and Southwest Asia and North Africa (SSWANA), examining their historical connections, inter- and intra-regional entanglements, overlaps, and differences. Conceptualizing science fiction and fantasy (SFF) a...
Mohammad Rahmatullah
Tareq Salauddin Mahmud