Satoh’s Dance of Angels as a Dramaturgical Discourse Seeking and Doubting the Young Generation’s Revolution

Authors

  • Darko Suvin McGill University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE.MM.12.2.17

Author Biography

Darko Suvin, McGill University

Darko Suvin is Professor Emeritus of McGill University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has written many books and hundreds of essays in the area of utopian and science fiction, comparative literature, dramaturgy, theory of literature, theatre, and cultural theory. His most recent work is Disputing the Deluge: Collected 21st-Century Writings on Utopia, Narration, and Survival (Bloomsbury 2021) edited by Hugh O'Connell.

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Published

2022-01-09

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Suvin, D. (2022). Satoh’s Dance of Angels as a Dramaturgical Discourse Seeking and Doubting the Young Generation’s Revolution. Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 12(2), 343–380. https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE.MM.12.2.17