Ecofeminist Dialogic: Identity Continua in Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora.
Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora (2015) contributes to an ecofeminist dialogic by complicating representation through linguistic systems. I examine the novel's starship to look at the body's role in identity formation within a confining linguistic system. Moving from a singular female "I," to the plura...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 48; no. 3; pp. 517 - 537 |
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University of California Press
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