Travels in Subjectivity
Post(Genomic) Humanism in Ursula K. LeGuin's Changing Planes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5117508 |
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| Authors | Jill Leroy-Frazier (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 95-111 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mosaic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-1276 • E-ISSN: 1925-5683 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/mos.2016.a621130 |
| OpenAlex | W2441982270 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Travel literature conventionally treats the traveler’s hegemonic encounter with difference; in her mock travel narrative Ursula LeGuin imagines how the postmodern traveler in a global, biotechnological age might begin to develop a more cosmopolitan understanding of diversity by means of a radical rethinking of Western preconceptions about ontology, self, and subjectivity
Aesthetics · Art · Diversity (politics) · Epistemology · Hegemony · Humanism · Literature · Narrative · Ontology · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Sociology · Subjectivity · Theology · Anthropology · Law · Philosophy · Themes in Literature Analysis · Travel Writing and Literature · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
| Highly cited | No |
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