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Author Carolann North

Carolann North

Carolann North is a research associate, lecturer and poet in English literature at Ulster University. Previous publications include 'Sacha Levy’s Unorthodox Kindness: Holby City’s Medicine and Pedagogy, in The Journal of Popular Television (2021), and ‘The Architecture of You: Gender, repression and the home in Chuck Palahniuk’s Diary’ (2014). Her thesis, ‘The Mythology of Us: Chuck Palahniuk and the Sisyphean Plight of the postmodern American absurdist’ has been accepted by Routledge for publication in 2022. She is currently Research Associate for Books Beyond Boundaries NI, an Ulster University project funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. E-mail: c.north1@ulster.ac.uk

‘The Ethics of Quantum Colonialism’: Navigating American Racial Anxiety in N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became

Carolann North
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The conflict between racial equality and white anxiety is the central point of interrogation of N.K Jemisin’s 2020 novel, The City We Became, an American sci-fi novel which depicts the literal birth of New York... Read More...
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