CoFUTURES: About

CoFUTURES outreach and publications activities include the Routledge book series Studies in Global Genre Fiction, edited by Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay and Taryne Jade Taylor.

ABOUT

Studies in Global Genre Fiction is a series of investigations into understudied genre fiction from diverse literary cultures and languages. The series offers original insights into the history of genre fiction in terms of literary history, media history, reception history, and print and publication history throughout the world. The series contests the two hierarchies that constrain global genre fiction studies: between Anglophone literature and other language literatures, and between literary fiction and genre fiction. It explores the exchanges between different literary cultures that productively shape aesthetic concerns, while also exploring the specific literary, sociopolitical, geographical, economic, and historical forces that shape genre fiction across the world. A key focus for the series will be on understudied genre fictions from the “global South” – where geographical location often confines works to the margins of the global publishing industry, international circulation, and academic scrutiny, even if these works may be widely read and circulated in their own specific languages or contexts. Each volume in the series redefines the boundaries of genre fiction studies.

We welcome monographs and edited collections on studies of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, Detective fiction, Crime fiction and thrillers, Romance, in literature, comics and graphic novels, genre films and other genre visual media, as well as hitherto unmapped popular genres in different parts of the world. We are particularly interested in studies that highlight fictions of the “Global South”and non-Anglophone genre literature, studies of transnational connections between genre fictions, and the untranslated in genre fictions. If you have a manuscript or proposal for us, we would love to discuss more!

SERIES DETAILS

This series has three main objectives, outlined below in terms of their specific intervention into fields of study:

One, Book history, print and publication history: the series will provide original analysis of how context specific ways of production, distribution, marketing, and reception alter our understanding of what constitutes genre literature, and what kind of publishing and institutional histories lie behind the production of genre literature around the world.

Two, Genre fiction studies, genre theory, and comparative genre studies: the series will show how different kinds of classifications and genre labels are adopted, used, misused, broken down and reshaped, discarded, often with different aesthetic implications in different literary cultures. It will also engage in extensive comparative studies between different language literatures to show the entanglement of different genre fictions, and explore processes of translation, transcreation and localization.

Three, Literary history, literary theory, and comparative literary studies: the series will provide original interventions into literary history and contest the hierarchical separation of genre (lowbrow/low literature) and non-genre fiction (high literature), within an already segregated space of Anglophone and global (non-Anglophone) literature. Such hierarchies fail to capture the incredibly rich literary and cultural history of world and global literatures, and the many points of intersection and flows between the ostensible high and the ostensible low, and the cross-cultural influences in literary production.

Series Editors
• Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (University of Oslo, Norway)
• Taryne Jade Taylor (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA)

Editorial Advisory Board
• Suparno Banerjee (Texas State University, USA)
• Alexis Brooks de Vita (Texas Southern University, USA)
• Paweł Frelik (University of Warsaw, Poland)
• M Elizabeth Ginway (University of Florida, USA)
• Joan Gordon (Science Fiction Studies)
• Abhijit Gupta (Jadavpur University, India)
• Rana Issa (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
• Helge Jordheim (University of Oslo, Norway)
• Dale Knickerbocker (East Carolina University, USA)
• Aino-Kaisa Koistinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
• Isiah Lavender III (University of Georgia, USA)
• Farah Mendlesohn (Anglia Ruskin Centre for Science and Fantasy, UK)
• Amy J. Ransom (Central Michigan University, USA)
• Takayuki Tatsumi (Keio University, Japan)

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Year	Title	Type	Author(s)/Editor(s)	Details
2018/19	Indian Genre Fiction: Pasts and Future Histories	Edited Collection	Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Aakriti Mandhwani, Anwesha Maity	Indian Genre Fiction: Pasts and Future Histories Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Aakriti Mandhwani, Anwesha Maity (eds.) 2018/19 This edited collection maps the domain of genre literature in India. In Indian genre fiction, the inherent problems of cross-linguistic mapping from either theoretical or comparative historical perspectives has meant that the vast domain of literature that is read by the majority population of the country, especially those outside the urban Anglophone nexus, has received little critical attention. The burgeoning recent interest in the “popular” as a category in academic circles: popular culture, genre literature, and commercial film, necessitates at present a closer look at this body of literature. The volume does the following: a) It provides a comprehensive introduction to the problems associated with theorizing the category of genre literature in Indian literature. b) Chapters on nine different genres from seven different language literatures, written by leading national and international scholars working with Indian genre literature, tease out commonalities and divergences in formal and thematic terms. c) It provides an exploratory framework for dealing with Indian genre literature, proposing a new way of approaching cross-linguistic comparison by refocusing on shared trajectories in print history and political history. Table of Contents Introduction / Indian Genre Fiction: Languages, Literatures, Classifications Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay and Aakriti Mandhwani Emergence of Distinctions 1. Preetha Mani: Literary and Popular Fiction in Late Colonial Tamil Nadu 2. C. M. Naim: Homage to a ‘Magic-Writer’: the Mistrīz and Asrār Novels of Urdu 3. Aritra Chakrabarty: A Series of Unfortunate Events: Natural Calamities in Nineteenth Century Bengali Chapbooks 4. Debjani Sengupta: Explorers of Subversive Knowledge: The Science-Fantasy of Leela Majumdar and Sukumar Ray Postcolonial Reassertions 5. Ira Pande: Hearts and Homes: a perspective on women writers in Hindi 6. Anwesha Maity: Genre Fiction and Aesthetic Relish: Reading Rasa in Contemporary Times 7. Jeetumoni Basumatary: Community Fiction: Mamang Dai’s The Legends of Pensam and Temsula Ao’s These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone Genres in the 21st Century 8. E. Dawson Varughese: Post-Millennial ‘Mythology-Inspired Fiction’ in English: The Market, the Genre, and the (Global) Reader 9. Chinmay Sharma: Expanding world of Indian English Fiction: The Mahabharata Re-told in Krishna Udayasankar’s The Aryavarta Chronicles and Amruta Patil’s Adi Parva 10. Aratrika Das: When Bhimayana Enters the Classroom … 11. Aakriti Mandhwani: From the Colloquial to the ‘Literary’: Hindi Pulp’s Journey from the Streets to the Bookshelves

More titles forthcoming.

To discuss a book pitch, please write to

Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (bodhi[at]bodhisattvac[dot]com) and Taryne Jade Taylor (taylot49[at]erau[dot]edu)

or

contact via this website contact form or facebook.

We look forward to hearing from you!