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The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin

Science, Fiction, Ethics

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Editors:
  1. Christopher L. Robinson

    1. École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

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  2. Sarah Bouttier

    1. École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

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  3. Pierre-Louis Patoine

    1. New Sorbonne University, Paris, France

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  • Takes a multidisciplinary approach to Le Guin’s work
  • Engages with the entirety of Le Guin’s writing career
  • Highlights Le Guin’s ethical philosophy that engages indigenous studies, gender studies and philosophy of science

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture (PSSPC)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Christopher L. Robinson, Sarah Bouttier, Pierre-Louis Patoine
    Pages 1-7

  3. Always Coming Home and the Hinge in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Career

    • Brian Attebery
    Pages 9-25

  4. Making Narrative Connections with Ursula K. Le Guin, Rosi Braidotti, and Teresa de Lauretis

    • Christopher L. Robinson
    Pages 27-46

  5. Utopias Unrealizable and Ambiguous: Plato, Leo Strauss, and The Dispossessed

    • Dennis Wilson Wise
    Pages 47-63

  6. Many Voices in the Household: Indigeneity and Utopia in Le Guin’s Ekumen

    • Arwen Spicer
    Pages 65-81

  7. The Language of the Dusk: Anthropocentrism, Time, and Decoloniality in the Work of Ursula K. Le Guin

    • Katie Stone, Eli Lee, Francis Gene-Rowe
    Pages 83-105

  8. The Dream of Power and the Power of Dreams: Ursula K. Le Guin and the X-Men

    • Stephanie Burt
    Pages 107-119

  9. Ursula K. Le Guin, Thinking in SF Mode

    • Isabelle Stengers
    Pages 121-136

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 137-143
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

    Christopher L. Robinson, Sarah Bouttier

  • New Sorbonne University, Paris, France

    Pierre-Louis Patoine

About the editors

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 of English at Ecole Polytechnique, IP-Paris, France. She 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).

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