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Episode 7 - National myth: Rewriting America and China

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Narrative Futures
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Ken Liu discusses the power of myth in the construction of national narratives and the revisionist work that epic fantasy can do to rewrite them, drawing on the weight of time as omnipresent to narrative intent.

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Series
Narrative Futures
People
Ken Liu
Chelsea Haith
Louis Greenberg
Keywords
epic fantasy
Ken Liu
mythologies
The Grace of Kings
ai
alternative technologies
sci fi
literature
america
china
narrative futures
futures thinking network
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 23/11/2020
Duration: 00:43:41

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