The Ambiguous Utopias of Ursula Le Guin
Title: The Ambiguous Utopias of Ursula Le Guin
Category: /Literature
Details: Words: 3592 | Pages: 13 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Ambiguous Utopias of Ursula Le Guin
Category: /Literature
Details: Words: 3592 | Pages: 13 (approximately 235 words/page)
Introduction
After the first World War the genre of utopian science fiction slowly started to disappear, almost vanishing later in the century. A new fiction genre had started taking its place, Dystopias, easily described as the opposite of a Utopia (a purely evil place where the people are suppressed). However, after this Utopias experienced a revival. They were mostly written by relatively young Americans and were fuelled by the social renaissance of the 70's. Le
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