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020			_a978-0-00-85018-2
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100			_aKuang, R.F.
245			_aBabel: _bAn Arcane History/ _cR.F. Kuang- _heng
260			_aLondon: _bHarper Voyager, _c2022.
300			_axii, 546p. _bsoftbound _c15x23cm.
505			_aPublished 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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