The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin

Science, Fiction, Ethics

Christopher L. Robinson, Sarah Bouttier, Pierre-Louis Patoine (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

XII, 143 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-82826-4 (ISBN)

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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.

lt;p>Christopher L. Robinson is Assistant Professor of English at the École Polytechnique, IP-Paris, France. After completing his dissertation on Ursula K. Le Guin, he went on to publish numerous articles in gender and genre studies. His current research focuses on the intersections of literature, art and the sciences.

Sarah Bouttier is Assistant Professor at Ecole Polytechnique, IP-Paris, France who has widely published on the nonhuman/posthuman in literature, ecopoetics, modernist literature and contemporary poetry.

Pierre-Louis Patoine is Assistant professor of American literature at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France. He is co-director of the Science/Literature research group (litorg.hypotheses.org) and co-editor of the journal epistemocritique.org. He has published a monograph on the role of the empathic, physiological body in the experience of reading (Corps/texte 2015).

1. Introduction.- 2. Always Coming Home and the Hinge in Ursula K. Le Guin's Career.- 3. Making Narrative Connections with Ursula K. Le Guin, Rosi Braidotti and Teresa de Lauretis.- 4. Utopias Unrealizable and Ambiguous: Plato, Leo Strauss, and The Dispossessed.- 5. Many Voices in the Household: Indigeneity and Utopia in Le Guin's Ekumen.- 6. The Language of the Dusk: Anthropocentrism, Time, and Decoloniality in the Work of Ursula K. Le Guin.- 7. The Dream of Power and the Power of Dreams: Ursula K. Le Guin and the X-Men.- 8. Ursula K. Le Guin, Thinking in SF Mode.

Erscheinungsdatum	21.09.2021
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture
Zusatzinfo	XII, 143 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	334 g
Themenwelt	Literatur
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	ethics • indigeneity • indigenous studies • Literature, Gender and Sexuality • Literature, Science and Medicine Studies • philosophy of science • posthumanism • Science Fiction • Speculative Fiction • Ursula Le Guin • utopian studies
ISBN-10	3-030-82826-3 / 3030828263
ISBN-13	978-3-030-82826-4 / 9783030828264
Zustand	Neuware