E-Book, Englisch, 143 Seiten, eBook
Science, Fiction, Ethics
E-Book, Englisch, 143 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture
ISBN: 978-3-030-82827-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
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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.
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Weitere Infos & Material
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.