Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin

Christopher L. Robinson is Assistant Professor of English at the École Polytechnique, IP-Paris, France. After completing his dissertation on Ursula K. Le Guin, he went on to publish numerous articles in gender and genre studies. His current research focuses on the intersections of literature, art and the sciences. Sarah Bouttier is Assistant Professor of English at Ecole Polytechnique, IP-Paris, France. She has widely published on the nonhuman/posthuman in literature, ecopoetics, modernist literature and contemporary poetry.Pierre-Louis Patoine is Assistant Professor of American literature at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France. He is co-director of the Science/Literature research group (litorg.hypotheses.org) and co-editor of the journal epistemocritique.org. He has published a monograph on the role of the empathic, physiological body in the experience of reading (Corps/texte 2015).

• 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.