• Meera K G

Speculative fiction is a literary “super genre,” which encompasses a number of different genres of fiction, each with speculative elements that are based on conjecture and do not exist in the real world. Sometimes called “what-if” books, speculative literature changes the laws of what’s real or possible as we know them in our current society, and then speculates on the outcome. An inherently plural category, speculative fiction is a mode of thought-experimenting that includes the proliferation of indigenous, minority, and postcolonial narrative forms that subvert dominant Western notions of the real; and the need for new conceptual categories to accommodate diverse and hybrid types of storytelling that oppose a stifling vision of reality imposed by exploitative global capitalism . M.G Vassanji’s latest book Nostalgia tries to carry those themes into a new genre, speculative fiction. Nostalgia is set in a futuristic Toronto where the rich live forever by erasing their memories and implanting new ones. If memory is erased, the only thing left is the body. . The futuristic setting allows Vassanji to explore anxieties about migration, race mixing, and the unequal distribution of wealth with a clinical but compassionate eye.

Speculative fiction ,Post enlightment ,Indigenous ,Minority ,Post colonial Narrative ,Hybridic ,Dystopic ,Personal histories ,Futuristic ,Dysfunctional

"Archaeologies of the Future : M.G. Vassanji's Nostalgia as Speculative Fiction ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.13-16, September-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907904.pdf

"Archaeologies of the Future : M.G. Vassanji's Nostalgia as Speculative Fiction ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp13-16, September-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907904.pdf