This book attempts to redefine the novel by combining narrative with an imagined anthropological record. We discuss Le Guin’s background and mission, as well as larger questions about cultural misappropriation and utopianism.

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• • Always Coming Home

Additional Resources:

• • Future Ethnography of the Inhabitants of the Valley of the Na, and The unBible of Ursula K. Le Guin

• • PAPERBACKS; THE KESH IN SONG AND STORY

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• • Ursula K. Le Guin’s Folk/Electronica Album Can Teach Us a Lot About Storytelling
  • The Journeys of Ursula K. Le Guin. By: CARPENTER, ZOË, Nation, 00278378, 10/24/2016, Vol. 303, Issue 17
  • Taking Politics to Another World. By: Pilon, Dennis, Canadian Dimension, 00083402, Sep/Oct2007, Vol. 41, Issue 5

• • Le Guin, Urusula K. “On the Frontier,” in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination, edited by Le Guin. Boston: Shambhala Press, 2004.

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