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...

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Published in:	Science Fiction Studies Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 228 - 246
Main Author:	Higgins, David M.
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	University of California Press Jul2013
Subjects:	Decolonization Imperialism Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961 Postcolonialism Heinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson), 1907-1988 Psychology
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