Universität Wien

240135 UE Guided Reading (2024W)

Feministische Fiktionen: Ursula Le Guin

7.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 24 - Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Continuous assessment of course work

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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 07.10. 16:45 - 20:00 Seminarraum 16, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Monday 21.10. 16:45 - 20:00 Seminarraum 16, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Monday 04.11. 16:45 - 20:00 Seminarraum 16, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Monday 18.11. 16:45 - 20:00 Seminarraum 16, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Monday 02.12. 16:45 - 20:00 Seminarraum 16, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Monday 16.12. 16:45 - 20:00 Seminarraum 16, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Monday 13.01. 16:45 - 20:00 Seminarraum 16, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
  • Monday 27.01. 16:45 - 20:00 Seminarraum 16, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Guided Reading: Ursula Le Guin

It may be that Ursula Le Guin's books such as ‘Earthsea’ or ‘Planet of the Have-Nots’ are not really well known. They are probably among the best queer fantasy or science fiction works. Ursula K. Le Guin's literary projects were impressive and bold. She invented archipelagos of fantasy with hundreds of islands populated by wizards and dragons, worlds with thriving and hostile cultures. Unfortunately, according to Le Guin, she only realised late on that she had missed something important - her writing reproduced male fantasies. In Earthsea and her other stories, only men are the initiated magicians, women are at best good as witches for love or jealousy spells and are usually found behind the cooker (Zähringer 2019). This was the starting point of her search for a form of story - with which she also ended Erdsee - that not only allowed for duplicates of male heroes in female bodies or female characters in male spaces.
In the GR course, we will follow this trail and others - using interviews, essays and texts - in joint readings and discussions.

Assessment and permitted materials


Participation, Reading, Essays

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Participation, Reading, Essays

Examination topics

see literature and Moodle (from the end of August 2024)

Reading list

Davis, L., & Stillman, P. (2005). The new utopian politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's : the dispossessed /. Lanham, Maryland ; Oxford, England :: Lexington Books.

Jaeckle, D. P. (2009). Embodied Anarchy in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed. Utopian Studies, 20(1), 75–95. doi: 10.2307/20719930

Morrison, M. I. (2011). Anarcho-feminism and permanent revolution in Ursula K. Le Guin's ‘‘The Dispossessed’’ ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.

Le Guin, Ursula K. (1974): The Dispossessed. London : Gollancz.

Le Guin, Ursula K. (1968): Earthsea Books. A Wizard of Earthsea, Berkely: Parnassus Press.

Le Guin, Ursula K. (1996): The Creatures on My Mind. In: Unlocking the Air and Other Stories, New York: Harper Perennial, p. 61 – 66.

Le Guin, Ursula K. (2018): Wesen und Wert von Macht. Ursula K. Le Guin über Tenar, ihre erste weibliche Hauptfigur. Tor.Online. 15.10.2018. Online unter: https://www.tor-online.de/feature/buch/2018/10/wesen-und-wert-von-macht-ursula-k-le-guin-ueber-tenar-ihre-erste-weibliche-hauptfigur/ (19.04.2022)

Le Guin, Ursula K. (2020): Am Anfang war der Beutel. (The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction), Klein Jasedow: thinkOya.

Le Guin, Ursula (1996): The Creatures on My Mind. In: Unlocking the Air and Other Stories, New York: Harper Perennial, p. 61 – 66.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 1942- [VerfasserIn] ; Chakravorty, Swapan [VerfasserIn] ; Milevska, Suzana, 1961- [VerfasserIn] ; Barlow, Tani E.. (2006): Conversations with Gayatri Chakaravorty Spivak. London New York Calcutta: Seagull Books.

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