‘MI I PL ET RIUM’: navigating a post-apocalyptic world in Karen Russell’s “The Gondoliers”
Far from being speculative fiction à la Atwood or just another cli-fi piece, Karen Russell’s short story “The Gondoliers” is a genre b(l)ending text, a ‘Southern Gothic 2.0.’ Rife with intertextual references, it entwines cli-fi with the “freakishly imaginative” (Roy 2019) which is Russell’s signatu...
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Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona
2022-06-01
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| Series: | Iperstoria |
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| Online Access: | https://iperstoria.it/article/view/1164 |