The Language of the Night: Essays by Ursula K. Le Guin, Including "Is Gender Necessary?" Interrogating the Gender Binary and The Left Hand of Darkness, Signed First Edition
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1979. [Sci-Fi][Feminism][Literature] [LGBTQ] Le Guin, Ursula K. The Language of the Night, 1979, collects essays in which the author articulates the intellectual foundations of modern science fiction and fantasy while examining how speculative literature can interrogate gender, sexuality, and social hierarchy. Written during a period when feminist scholarship and LGBTQ discourse were reshaping literary criticism, the volume contains Le Guin's influential essay "Is Gender Necessary?" in which she revisits her novel The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) and reexamines her own treatment of gender and language. Addressing the social transformations of the 1960s and 1970s feminist movement, Le Guin reflects on her evolving understanding of gender and political identity, writing: "I considered myself a feminist; I didn't see how you could be a thinking woman and not be a feminist; but I had never taken a step beyond the ground gained for us by Emmeline Pankhurst and Virginia Woolf." Through critical self-analysis and theoretical speculation, the essays situate science fiction as a literary form capable of examining the cultural construction of gender and imagining alternative social structures. Le Guin, Ursula K. The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. New York: Putnam, 1979. Edited and with introductions by Susan Wood. Signed by Le Guin on the front endpaper. First edition. Original binding in original illustrated dust jacket designed by Virginia Kidd. The vol
- Year: 1979
- Edition: First Edition
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