Allotropes and Speculative Obligation: SF in Southern Africa.
This article focuses on speculative fiction written by authors from Southern Africa to examine the nature and effect of genre in fiction from a non-European context. In particular, I claim that Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (Zimbabwe), Namwali Serpell (Zambia), Tlotlo Tsamaase (Botswana), and Nick Wood (Zambia...
| Published in: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 51; no. Part 3; pp. 400 - 416 |
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| Format: | Literary Criticism |
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University of California Press
Nov2024
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