Literary Latitude

by Riya Bhatia Armed with the powerful tool of imagination, Vandana Singh, widely regarded as the first speculative fiction writer, advocates against the “pathologically solipsist” dominant paradigms such as anthropocentrism, violence of patriarchy, colonialism, and (ir)rationalities of modernism to foreground the “transgressive potential” of speculative fiction at the grand stage of the universe (200-01). In The…