Dune

Jordan S. Carroll is a Visiting Assistant Professor in English at the University of Puget Sound. He is the author of Reading the Obscene: Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of U.S. Literature (forthcoming, Stanford University Press), and his work has appeared in American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Post45, and the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. He is currently working on a second book project, Speculative Whiteness, which explores science fiction and the racial politics of time in contemporary fascist ideology.

Jordan S. Carroll

Race Consciousness: Fascism and Frank Herbert’s “Dune”

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

Jordan S. Carroll is a Visiting Assistant Professor in English at the University of Puget Sound. He is the author of Reading the Obscene: Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of U.S. Literature (forthcoming, Stanford University Press), and his work has appeared in American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Post45, and the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. He is currently working on a second book project, Speculative Whiteness, which explores science fiction and the racial politics of time in contemporary fascist ideology.