... studies of Sandoz and Le Guin, Clark fails to take up the more compelling challenge of how the Cold War consensus of the 1950s gave way to the creative eruptions of the 1960s; certainly she puts a misleading em...

... be found in Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish novels. Unlike the work of many other SF authors from the 1960s and 1970s, Le Guin's extrapolations develop throughout her Hainish cycle beyond a straightforward negative critique of imperialism toward a positive and creative conceptualization of cosmopolitan...

... existence like the one predicted in Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1974 novel The Dispossessed . Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 apocalypse dystopia survival In a critical scene in The Matrix , Cypher (Joe Pantoliano) journeys solo into the Matrix to meet secretly with Agent Smith (Hugo...

..., Jeff VanderMeer, Vonda McIntyre, and Ursula K. Le Guin—the last of whom memorably noted that Atwood was refusing the science fiction label because “[s]he doesn’t want the literary bigots to shove her into the literary ghetto.”3 The 2009 version of the debate reached its apex in a proposed...

... not to hear’’ (167). Finally, the author turns to Le Guin as an exemplar of how stories in the 1960s broke through the ‘‘hypermasculine consensus’’ to provide an alternate history that put the reigning discourses in perspective...

.... Fiedler presages less san- guine critics who claim that literature is modeled on confession, pro- ducing subjects capable of disciplining themselves without the direct supervision of any superior (Foucault 1978, 21–22). However, for 340  American Literature Fiedler and Playboy, who remained under...

... not to hear’’ (167). Finally, the author turns to Le Guin as an exemplar of how stories in the 1960s broke through the ‘‘hypermasculine consensus’’ to provide an alternate history that put the reigning discourses in perspective...

... Herbert’s Dune (1965), Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time (1976), Ursula Le Guin’s Always Coming Home (1985), and the more recent Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009). Otto places the phrase transformative environmentalism at the center of his argument and defines it as a future...

..., and playwrights ranging from Samuel Coleridge and Edgar Allan Poe to Ursula Le Guin and Michael Chabon, Leane’s expansive analysis reveals how a continent often perceived as unwritable has served as a pathway through which to probe individual subjectivity, explore the past, proj- ect the future, and even...

... concerned about the ethical education of children. —Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction (1989) We expect a white child to find it easy to identify with an animal but not with a black character. Is the child further removed from a person of another...

... such as Frank Herbert’s Dune (1965), Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time (1976), Ursula Le Guin’s Always Coming Home (1985), and the more recent Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009). Otto places the phrase transformative environmentalism at the center of his argument and defines...

...), Ursula Le Guin’s TheLeftHandofDarkness(1969), and Monique Wittig’s Les Guérillères (1969). For each, Peel traces the evolution of protean metaphors, beginning with awareness followed by three ‘‘remappings Her approach works won- derfully for Zones, with its linear structure and dramatic cross...

.... In part 2, Peel applies her theories to complex feminist utopias: Doris Less- 648 American Literature ing’s The Marriages between Zones Three, Four, and Five (1980), Ursula Le Guin’s TheLeftHandofDarkness(1969), and Monique Wittig’s Les Guérillères (1969). For each, Peel traces the evolution...

...), Ursula Le Guin’s TheLeftHandofDarkness(1969), and Monique Wittig’s Les Guérillères (1969). For each, Peel traces the evolution of protean metaphors, beginning with awareness followed by three ‘‘remappings Her approach works won- derfully for Zones, with its linear structure and dramatic cross...

...), Ursula Le Guin’s TheLeftHandofDarkness(1969), and Monique Wittig’s Les Guérillères (1969). For each, Peel traces the evolution of protean metaphors, beginning with awareness followed by three ‘‘remappings Her approach works won- derfully for Zones, with its linear structure and dramatic cross...

...), Ursula Le Guin’s TheLeftHandofDarkness(1969), and Monique Wittig’s Les Guérillères (1969). For each, Peel traces the evolution of protean metaphors, beginning with awareness followed by three ‘‘remappings Her approach works won- derfully for Zones, with its linear structure and dramatic cross...

...), Ursula Le Guin’s TheLeftHandofDarkness(1969), and Monique Wittig’s Les Guérillères (1969). For each, Peel traces the evolution of protean metaphors, beginning with awareness followed by three ‘‘remappings Her approach works won- derfully for Zones, with its linear structure and dramatic cross...

...), Ursula Le Guin’s TheLeftHandofDarkness(1969), and Monique Wittig’s Les Guérillères (1969). For each, Peel traces the evolution of protean metaphors, beginning with awareness followed by three ‘‘remappings Her approach works won- derfully for Zones, with its linear structure and dramatic cross...

... beliefs depends on the ‘‘matching’’ process that occurs when beliefs of implied and real readers coincide. In part 2, Peel applies her theories to complex feminist utopias: Doris Less- 648 American Literature ing’s The Marriages between Zones Three, Four, and Five (1980), Ursula Le Guin’s...

..., and includes twenty-four essays that take up the political dimensions of sci- ence fiction, from writers such as H. G. Wells, Paulo de Sousa Ramos, Iain M. Banks, Philip K. Dick, China Miéville, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Walter Mosley. The collection also considers the TV series Star Trek and Battlestar...