Salvaging Utopia: Lessons for (and from) the Left in Rivers Solomon’s <i>An Unkindness of Ghosts</i> (2017), <i>The Deep</i> (2019), and <i>Sorrowland</i> (2021)
In response to this special issue’s question of whether mainstream science fiction has become stuck in presentism and apocalypticism, this article examines how utopia is expressed and salvaged in the work of Rivers Solomon. Using three of Solomon’s novels and the theoretical lenses of black utopia s...
Main Author: | Megen de Bruin-Molé |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2021-10-01
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Series: | Humanities |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/10/4/109 |
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