44 pages 1 hour read

Rebecca Roanhorse

Black Sun

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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Essay Topics

1.

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

2.

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?

3.

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