![]() ![]() Bakhtin described carnival as a celebration of the “temporary liberation from the prevailing truth and from the established order it marked the suspension of all hierarchical rank, privileges, norms, and prohibitions.… People were, so to speak, reborn for new, purely human relations.” For instance, Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of a carnivalistic sense of the world is important to her analysis. While Solnit draws from historical and sociological information about real-world disasters, she augments her researched accounts with works of literary criticism. In A Paradise Built in Hell, the California Book Club’s September selection, she describes the human potential to effect change in the brief time after disaster. ![]() ![]() Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.” Author Rebecca Solnit might agree with Le Guin’s memorable statements. In her acceptance speech for the 2014 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, science fiction author Ursula K. ![]()
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