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The anthropocene unconscious of African second contact narratives: District 9, Rosewater, Lagoon

Bould, Mark

Authors

Mark Bould Mark.Bould@uwe.ac.uk
Professor of Film and Literature



Contributors

Karolina Lebek
Editor

Abstract

This chapter examines the ways in which anthropogenic climate destabilisation registers in three recent Africa sf texts which are not ostensibly concerned with climate change, but with postcolonial 'second contact' situations in which 'first contact' with imperial powers is reworked by the arrival of alien invaders or interlopers.

Deposit Date Jan 17, 2019
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Book Title Fantastic Materials: Things and the Non-Real
Keywords anthropocene unconscious, sf, second contact, postcolony, alien invasion
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/854571
Contract Date Jan 17, 2019