![]() ![]() In this chapter, I examine the ways in which the alternate history is used to present history and the development of societies in the context of an absent Europe, and in the absence of the concept of Europe as historically constructed in our timeline. ![]() ![]() Scenes set in the bardo, an intermediate state between death and rebirth in Tibetan Buddhism, introduce a narrative frame for reflecting on the language games relating to history that are portrayed in the text. Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt (2002) depicts a world that might have developed had European civilizations been eradicated by the Black Death. ![]()
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