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44 pages 1 hour read

Rebecca Roanhorse

Black Sun

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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Essay Topics

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Pick two major characters from Black Sun and compare their ideas of home.

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How does the setting of a secondary world fantasy relate to the lived historical realities of pre-Columbian Indigenous peoples, especially in the Caribbean and in Central America? What common experiences do Roanhorse’s characters and these real-life people share?

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How do the magic systems in Black Sun draw from human relationships to the natural world?

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