“Arfabad”

Title“Arfabad”
Year for Search2021
AuthorsChatterjee, Rimi B.(b. 1969)
Secondary AuthorsRupprecht, Christoph, Cleland, Deborah, Tamura, Norie, Chaudhuri, Rajat, and Ulibarri, Sarena
Secondary TitleMultispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures
Pagination216-34
Date Published2021
PublisherWorld Weaver Press
Place PublishedAlbuquerque, NM
ISBN Number978-1-734054521
KeywordsEnglish 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.