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The Hainish Cycle #7

by Ursula K. Le Guin, Çiğdem Erkal İpek (Translator)

Zaferle sonuçlanan her özgürlük savaşı, yeni bir özgürlük savaşının başlangıcı demektir. Werel ve Yeowede sıra kadınlarda...

Şimdi tiksinerek, hikayemi sadece bu tür şeylerin oluşturduğunu ama aslında bir yaşamda, hatta bir kölenin yaşamında bile cinsellikten çok daha fazla şeyler olduğunu söyleyeceksiniz. Bu doğru. Benim bütün söyleyebileceğim hem kadın, hem erkek olarak en kolay cinselliğimiz konusunda köle ediliyor olabildiğimizdir. Hatta hür erkekler ve kadınlar olarak hürriyetimizi en zor muhafaza edebildiğimiz yer de orası diyebiliriz. Tenin siyasi düzenleri iktidarın köküdür.

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Feminism

249 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Ursula K. Le Guin published twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. Her recent publications include the novel Lavinia, an essay collection, Cheek by Jowl, and The Wild Girls. She lived in Portland, Oregon.

She was known for her treatment of gender (The Left Hand of Darkness, The Matter of Seggri), political systems (The Telling, The Dispossessed) and difference/otherness in any other form. Her interest in non-Western philosophies was reflected in works such as "Solitude" and The Telling but even more interesting are her imagined societies, often mixing traits extracted from her profound knowledge of anthropology acquired from growing up with her father, the famous anthropologist, Alfred Kroeber. The Hainish Cycle reflects the anthropologist's experience of immersing themselves in new strange cultures since most of their main characters and narrators (Le Guin favoured the first-person narration) are envoys from a humanitarian organization, the Ekumen, sent to investigate or ally themselves with the people of a different world and learn their ways.