The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia av Bryan Talbot, Mary Talbot

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<p>Set against the background of violence and state repression in a turbulent period of French history, <i>The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia</i> chronicles the incredible and outrageous life of Louise Michel, the revolutionary feminist dubbed ¿The Red Virgin of Montmartre¿. A utopian dreamer, notorious anarchist, teacher, orator and poet, she was decades ahead of her time. Always a radical, she fought on the barricades defending the short-lived Paris Commune of 1871 against the reactionary regime that massacred thousands of French citizens after the Commune¿s defeat. Deported to a penal colony on the other side of the Earth, she took up the cause of the indigenous population against French colonial oppression.</p><p>Celebrating the utopian urge in nineteenth-century literature and politics and the origins of science fiction, <i>The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia</i> is the third collaboration of best-selling academic and graphic novelist Mary M. Talbot with her husband, the