“Home is a place where you have never been”: connections with the other in Ursula Le Guin’s fiction

Abstract

If there is a particularly pressing need in our time to forge, through language, a new relationship between ourselves and others, then the fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin can be used to study the ways in which literature reflects changed and changing relationships between people and others, both human and nonhuman. In considering Le Guin's writing in this context, I align the effect of her works with that of contemporary nature writers.