“Arfabad”
| Title | “Arfabad” |
| Year for Search | 2021 |
| Authors | Chatterjee, Rimi B.(b. 1969) |
| Secondary Authors | Rupprecht, Christoph, Cleland, Deborah, Tamura, Norie, Chaudhuri, Rajat, and Ulibarri, Sarena |
| Secondary Title | Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures |
| Pagination | 216-34 |
| Date Published | 2021 |
| Publisher | World Weaver Press |
| Place Published | Albuquerque, NM |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-734054521 |
| Keywords | English author, Female author, Indian author, Northern Ireland author |
| Annotation | Fantasy with both explicit dystopia and eutopian elements. It is set in what is planned to be a hexology in which the protagonist, Zigsa, plays a significant role. The world in the story appears to be mostly a desert, and Zigsa has been rescued from the Test to Destruction Centre by dead friends but must walk across the desert to reach Arfabad, a eutopian area where the climate has not changed. |
| Author Note | The female author, who has a D.Phil. from Oxford and lives in India, was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, of Indian parents who returned to India in 1979. She teaches English at Jadavpur University. |
| Full Text | 2021 Chatterjee, Rimi B. (b. 1969). “Arfabad.” Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures. Ed. Christoph Rupprecht, Deborah Cleland, Norie Tamura, Rajat Chaudhuri, and Sarena Ulibarri (Albuquerque, NM: World Weaver Press, 2021), 216-34. Fantasy with both explicit dystopia and eutopian elements. It is set in what is planned to be a hexology in which the protagonist, Zigsa, plays a significant role. The world in the story appears to be mostly a desert, and Zigsa has been rescued from the Test to Destruction Centre by dead friends but must walk across the desert to reach Arfabad, a eutopian area where the climate has not changed. The female author, who has a D.Phil. from Oxford and lives in India, was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, of Indian parents who returned to India in 1979. She teaches English at Jadavpur University. |
