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Episode 1 - Pandemic writing: How close is too close?

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Narrative Futures
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Lauren Beukes discusses the proximity of her recent novel Afterland to the current pandemic and how collective action and art are the only way through these difficult times.

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Series
Narrative Futures
People
Lauren Beukes
Chelsea Haith
Louis Greenberg
Keywords
Lauren Beukes
The Shining Girls
time travel
science fiction
pandemic literature
GBV
south africa
speculative fiction
narrative futures
futures thinking network
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 14/10/2020
Duration: 00:36:40

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