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Nordic Utopias and Dystopias: From Aniara to Allatta!
Edited by Pia Maria Ahlbäck, Jouni Teittinen and Maria Lassén-Seger
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 17] 2022
► pp. 181–196

Harry Martinson’s Aniara as a Menippean satire for the Anthropocene

| Mälardalen University, Sweden
Article outline
  • Nuclear threat and destruction
  • Mima, Mimaroben and Isagel
  • An end and perhaps a beginning
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 24 November 2022
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