Babel: An Arcane History/ R.F. Kuang- eng
Material type: TextPublication details: London: Harper Voyager, 2022. Description: xii, 546p. softbound 15x23cmISBN: 978-0-00-85018-2DDC classification: 813Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | Tetso College Library English Literature | Fiction | 813 KUA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out to Senjumbeni K Jami (4622/ENG/Fac) | 13/06/2024 | 13179 |
Published in 2022, Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution is a speculative novel by R.F. Kuang. Kuang is the author of the Nebula-nominated series The Poppy War and the subject of viral buzz on BookTok, the literature-focused stream on the social media platform TikTok. Set during an alternate timeline in which translation from one language to another is a kind of magic that can be stored in silver, the novel is a story about four Oxford students who confront their complicity in British imperialism.
R.F. Kuang uses dark academia conventions and insights from anti-colonialist struggle to create a world in which the colonized win one battle against the British Empire using magic. The plot and diverse characters make the novel a counter-narrative to works of speculative fiction that never question their characters’ whiteness or the political context that produces such whiteness.
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