Comments on: Happy Birthday Ursula K. Le Guin

By: a stand-up gal « Comments on Culture

a stand-up gal « Comments on Culture — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:46:26 +0000

[...] Happy Birthday Ursula K. Le Guin [...]

By: Joanna Wolynska

Joanna Wolynska — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:07:24 +0000

Thank you very much for this post. I’m writing my PhD on Ursula K. LeGuin at the moment and I hope it means there is something new to say – or at least that her books can be viewed from a different angle. Especially that I do it in Poland, where LeGuin’s books, especially “The Left Hand of Darkness”, have rarely been associated with anthropology, but during the 1970s and 1980s gained cult status.

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By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:07:23 +0000

Prof. Roy Wagner (http://www.virginia.edu/anthropology/faculty/wagner.html) teaches “Fantasy and Social Values” at the University of Virginia. One of the best classes I have ever had, by far. He begins the semester with Left Hand of Darkness and moves on to The Dispossessed, then on to Dune, Enders Game, and finishes with Ridley Walker (when I took it in the fall of 05). Le Guin is great for teaching Anthro and should be used much more offten!

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By: Carlos Mondragon

Carlos Mondragon — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:05:02 +0000

Am re-reading Rocannon’s World these days, and assigned the Left Hand of Darkness to first year students this semester for a class on research methods and description in ethnography. Cannot agree more with your post. Good one.

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By: Drew Breunig

Drew Breunig — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:32:13 +0000

For my senior seminar regarding the narrative structures of enthnographies at UCSC, Susan Harding included Le Guin’s “Changing Planes” in addition to Malinowski, James Clifford, and others. Great class, interesting discussions. I heartily recommend Le Guin’s work to others in anthro.

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