Psychic Decolonization in 1960s Science Fiction.
This article surveys three iconic 1960s texts in order to show how popular authors appropriate Frantz Fanon's notion of "psychic decolonization" for the advantage of privileged male subjects. Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), Frank Herbert's Dune (1968), and Arthur C. Clarke's...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 228 - 246 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of California Press
Jul2013
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