Sultana's Dream
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Bangladeshi literature
Indian literature
feminist utopian fiction
science fiction literature
short story
Sultana's Dream is a pioneering 1905 feminist utopian short story that imagines a technologically advanced, women-led society and is considered a landmark work in early feminist science fiction.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bangladeshi literature
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Indian literature ⓘ feminist utopian fiction ⓘ science fiction literature ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| addressesIssue |
male violence
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militarism ⓘ purdah ⓘ women's access to education ⓘ |
| author |
Begum Rokeya
NERFINISHED
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Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
critique of patriarchy
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education for women ⓘ gender equality ⓘ reversal of gender roles ⓘ science and technology for social progress ⓘ women's empowerment ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | British India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| features |
air travel technology
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crime-free society ⓘ men confined to the domestic sphere ⓘ peaceful governance ⓘ solar energy technology ⓘ technologically advanced society ⓘ women-led society ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | The Indian Ladies' Magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| form | prose ⓘ |
| genre |
feminist science fiction
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social science fiction ⓘ speculative fiction ⓘ utopian fiction ⓘ |
| hasBeenTranslatedInto |
Bengali
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multiple languages ⓘ |
| influencedBy | contemporary social reform movements in Bengal ⓘ |
| keyCharacter | Sister Sara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| length | short story ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
early example of feminist science fiction
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landmark of South Asian feminist writing ⓘ one of the earliest feminist utopias in English ⓘ |
| movement | early 20th-century feminism ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor | reversing conventional gender power structures ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| protagonist | Sultana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1905 ⓘ |
| setting | Ladyland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structure | dream vision ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
feminist literature courses
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postcolonial literature courses ⓘ science fiction studies ⓘ |
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