Jessica Hurley, "Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
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Dolgran: A Novel Without an Ending
Dargrin is a masterpiece because it is itself both relentlessly materialist and wildly speculative. But it's also a novel without an ending, right? Like the last line wraps back round to the first line with a little bit of biverlap. So these meanings are all built into the landscape, but following our bach, there isn't an ending to secure them, so they all become speculative. And so the introstructure itself becomes moored in time and space,. The streets start moving around, and the characters experience time moving at different rates. It simultaneously evokes how racial and colonial engendered meanings, a canae coded into the american landscape, and gives you this wild
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