Studies in Global Genre Fiction
About the Book Series
Studies in Global Genre Fiction offers original insights into the history of genre literature while contesting two hierarchies that constrain global genre fiction studies: (1) Anglophone literature and other global language literatures and (2) literary fiction and genre fiction. The series explores the exchanges between different literary cultures that form aesthetic concerns and the specific literary, sociopolitical, geographical, economic, and historical forces that shape genre fiction globally. A key focus is understudied genre fictions from the ‘global South’ — where geographical location or language often confines works to the margins of the global publishing industry, international circulation, and academic scrutiny, even if they may be widely read in their own specific contexts.
Contributions to this series investigate the points of disruption, intersection and flows between literary and genre fiction. The series analyses cross-cultural influences in literary classifications, translation, transcreation, localization, production, and distribution while capturing the rich history of world and global literatures.
The Speculative Route: Futures from South and Southwest Asia and North Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Merve Tabur, Sami Ahmad Khan
August 29, 2025
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) ...
Nigerian Speculative Fiction: The Evolution
1st Edition
By Chukwunonso Ezeiyoke
May 30, 2025
This book is an exciting addition to a gap in non-Western genre studies of African fiction. It challenges the dominant canonicity of African literature, which is overshadowed by texts concerned with the colonial discourse and ‘writing back’ while exploring speculative themes in Nigerian fiction and...
Nordic Speculative Fiction: Research, Theory, and Practise
1st Edition
Edited
By Jyrki Korpua, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, Hanna-Riikka Roine, Marta Mboka Tveit
December 20, 2024
This volume brings together scholarly theories and practices on speculative fiction from the Nordic countries, including Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, that are all rooted in similar values, culture, and history yet are independent and unique societies. The book exhibits both the ...
Science Fiction Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Futures, Cosmopolitan Concerns
1st Edition
By Pablo Gómez-Muñoz
December 27, 2022
Recent films are increasingly using themes and conventions of science fiction such as dystopian societies, catastrophic environmental disasters, apocalyptic scenarios, aliens, monsters, time travel, teleportation, and supernatural abilities to address cosmopolitan concerns such as human rights, ...
The Making of The Wandering Earth: A Film Production Handbook
1st Edition
Edited
By Jiaren Wang, Regina Kanyu Wang (Storycom)
March 16, 2022
This handbook takes us through the making of The Wandering Earth, one of the highest-grossing non-English films of all time. It is a rare, in-depth, behind-the-scenes study of the making of a masterpiece, taking the reader through the entire production process of a landmark Chinese science fiction ...
Holocaust and the Stars: The Past in the Prose of Stanisław Lem
1st Edition
By Agnieszka Gajewska
November 30, 2021
This book is a groundbreaking study of one of the greatest science fiction writers, the Polish master Stanisław Lem. It offers a new direction in research on his oeuvre and corrects several errors commonly appearing in his biographies. The author painstakingly recreates the context of Lem’s early ...
Sultana’s Sisters: Genre, Gender, and Genealogy in South Asian Muslim Women's Fiction
1st Edition
Edited
By Haris Qadeer, P. K. Yasser Arafath
September 28, 2021
This book traces the genealogy of ‘women’s fiction’ in South Asia and looks at the interesting and fascinating world of fiction by Muslim women. It explores how Muslim women have contributed to the growth and development of genre fiction in South Asia and brings into focus diverse genres, including...
Indian Genre Fiction: Pasts and Future Histories
1st Edition
Edited
By Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Aakriti Mandhwani, Anwesha Maity
January 14, 2020
This volume maps the breadth and domain of genre literature in India across seven languages (Tamil, Urdu, Bangla, Hindi, Odia, Marathi and English) and nine genres for the first time. Over the last few decades, detective/crime fiction and especially science fiction/fantasy have slowly made their ...