Redukcja rzeczywistości u Ursuli le Guin. O narodzinach narracji utopijnej

• Authors: Jameson Fredric

Title variants

EN

World Reduction in Le Guin. The Emergence of Utopian Narrative

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

A part of the fascination of Left Hand of Darkness—as well as the ambiguity of its ultimate message—derives from the reductive and subterranean drive within it toward a utopian „rest,” toward some ultimate „no-place” of a collectivity untormented by sex or history. The attempt, in the portrayal of feudal Karhide, to imagine something like a West that has never known capitalism is of a piece, structurally and in spirit, with Le Guin’s attempt, in the portrayal of the ambisexuality of the Gethenians, to imagine biology without desire. Le Guin’s underlying identification between sex as a well-nigh gratuitous complication of existence and capitalism as a disease of change and meaningless evolutionary momentum is powerfully conveyed by the technique of world-reduction: in world reduction, omission functions as utopian exclusion. Karhide is not, of course, a utopia, but it is now clear that The Left Hand of Darkness served as a proving ground for The Dispossessed. The Odonian civilization of barren Annares becomes the most through-going application of the world reduction technique at the same time that it constitutes a timely rebuke to present attempts to parlay American abundance and consumerism into some ultimate vision of the „great society”.

Keywords

EN

Ursula le Guin; utopia; sex; sexuality; ambisexuality; biopolitics; capitalism

• Publisher: Ośrodek Badawczy Facta Ficta
• Journal: Creatio Fantastica
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 2(59)
• Pages: 25–38

Contributors

author

Jameson Fredric

• Duke University

translator

Maj Krzysztof M.

• Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza

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Identifiers

DOI

10.5281/zenodo.3311610