The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin: Science, Fiction, Ethics (Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture)

✍ Scribed by Christopher L. Robinson (editor), Sarah Bouttier (editor), Pierre-Louis Patoine (editor)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 149
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin explores how Le Guin’s fiction and essays have built a speculative ethical practice engaging indigenous knowledge and feminism, while crafting utopias in which human and other-than-human life forms enter into new relations. Her work also delineates new ways of making sense of the “science” of science fiction. The authors of this collection provide up-to-date discussions of well-known works as well as more experimental writings. Written in an accessible style, Legacies will appeal to any readers interested in literature, science fiction and fantasy, as well as specialists of science and technology studies, philosophy of science, ethics, gender studies, indigenous studies and posthumanism.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction
References
Chapter 2: Always Coming Home and the Hinge in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Career
References
Chapter 3: Making Narrative Connections with Ursula K. Le Guin, Rosi Braidotti, and Teresa de Lauretis
A Carrier Bag Narrative
A Town on the Move
A Life Sentence
The Sense of an Ending
Some Final Connections
References
Chapter 4: Utopias Unrealizable and Ambiguous: Plato, Leo Strauss, and The Dispossessed
Leo Strauss and the Ambiguities of Plato and Le Guin
Intellectuals (or Philosophers) in Relation to Society
References
Chapter 5: Many Voices in the Household: Indigeneity and Utopia in Le Guin’s Ekumen
References
Chapter 6: The Language of the Dusk: Anthropocentrism, Time, and Decoloniality in the Work of Ursula K. Le Guin
Who Is “we”?
Always Coming Home
Some Approaches to the Problem of the Shortage of Time
The Earthsea Books as a Helix of Time
References
Chapter 7: The Dream of Power and the Power of Dreams: Ursula K. Le Guin and the X-Men
References
Chapter 8: Ursula K. Le Guin, Thinking in SF Mode
References
Author Index
Works by Le Guin