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« Je pense que les temps qui viennent vont être difficiles pour ceux qui voudront entendre les voix d’écrivains qui pourront voir des alternatives à la façon dont nous vivons aujourd’hui et, à travers notre société frappée par la peur et ses technologies obsessionnelles, voir aussi d’autres manières d’être et imaginer de véritables raisons d’espérer. Nous aurons besoin d’écrivains qui se souviendront de, et nous rappelleront, la liberté. Poètes, visionnaires – les réalistes d’une réalité plus vaste. » Dans ce second volume d’essais et de conférences d’Ursula K. Le Guin, on trouve des îles inexplorées ou imaginaires, des oncles papago et yurok, des bibliothèques petites et grandes, des pieds bandés de jeunes filles et des chaussures des femmes, des chats, des chiens et des danseurs, Ishi, Jorge Luis Borges et Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain et Jane Austen, Léon Tolstoï et Cordwainer Smith, auteurs-autrices, lecteurs-lectrices, enfants dissipés et vieilles espiègles, collectionneurs, rimailleurs, batteurs, personnages en tout genre, dans un ordre compliqué qui suit les seules aspirations d’une pensée pleinement libre et singulière, enjambant les frontières et dessinant la carte d’un monde où la fiction et la fantaisie révèlent l’intelligence des choses.

Art d'écrire. --- Authorship. --- Création littéraire. --- Creative writing. --- Littérature --- Literature --- Philosophie. --- Philosophy. --- Le Guin, Ursula, --- Le Guin, Ursula K.,

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Women and literature --- Fantasy fiction, American --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- History --- History and criticism --- Le Guin, Ursula K., --- Criticism and interpretation. --- LeGuin, Ursula, --- Le Guin, Ursula, --- Guin, Ursula K. Le, --- Kroeber, Ursula, --- Ле Гуин, Урсула, --- גווין, אורסולה ק׳, --- Le guin (ursula k.), 1929 --- -Women and literature --- -Le guin (ursula k.), 1929 --- History and criticism.

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'Space Crone' brings together celebrated author Ursula K. Le Guin's writings on feminism and gender. Witness to the twentieth century's rebellions and upheavals, including women's liberation, the civil rights movement and anti-war and environmental activism, Le Guin continued to fight for social and environmental justice throughout her life. Famous for her experiments in imagining society where gender is irrelevant in novels such as 'The Left Hand of Darkness', Le Guin's feminism kept ahead of the times to reimagine gender in a non-essentialising way. 'Space Crone' shows the development of Le Guin's expansive, multi-layered and deeply radical feminist consciousness from its roots in her ecological, anti-war and anti-nuclear activism, to her self-education about racism and her writing about ageing.

Féminisme et littérature. --- Gender identity --- Feminism --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- essays --- feminisme --- gender --- Le Guin, Ursula K. --- Feminist fiction, American --- Women --- Sex role --- Women's rights --- History and criticism --- Social conditions --- Le Guin, Ursula K.,

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Written not so long after "Tolkien mania" first gripped the United States in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin's novel A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) has long been recognized as a classic of the fantasy genre, and the series of Earthsea books that followed on it over the next several decades earned its author both considerable sales and critical accolades. This new introduction to the text will closely contextualize the original novel in relation to its heady decade of composition and publication — a momentous time for genre publishing — and also survey the half century and more of scholarship on Earthsea, which has shifted in direction and emphasis many times over the decades, just as surely as Le Guin frequently adjusted her own sails when composing later works set in the fantasy world. Above all, this book positions A Wizard of Earthsea as perhaps an "old text" that nevertheless belongs in a "new canon," a key novel in the author's career and the genre in which it participates, and one that at once looks back to Tolkien and his own antecedents in masculinist early fantasy; looks forward to Le Guin's own continuing feminist and progressive education; and anticipates and indeed helped to shape young adult literature in its contemporary form. Timothy S. Miller is Assistant Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University, USA.

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