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Episode 8 - Telling stories: Psychoanalysis and alien invasion

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Narrative Futures
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Tade Thompson explores alien invasion as a metaphor for colonialism and discusses the importance of psychoanalysis and self-awareness in the building of personal and group identities.

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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
Tade Thompson
Chelsea Haith
Louis Greenberg
Keywords
Tade Thompson
Colonialism
postcolonialism
decolonise
aliens
psychoanalysis
Rosewater
sci fi
literature
genre
Black-British
narrative futures
futures thinking network
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 30/11/2020
Duration: 00:38:47

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