Capitalism, Ecosocialism and Reparative Readers in Ursula Le Guin’s <i>The Word for World Is Forest</i>

Ursula Le Guin’s <i>The Word for World is Forest</i> emerged as a reaction to the Vietnam War, which ravaged human and nonhuman lifeworlds. Le Guin offers two competing discursive systems through which to interpret human and nonhuman alterity—Terran industrial capitalism, grounded in phy...

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Published in:	Literature
Main Author:	Sneharika Roy
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2023-11-01
Subjects:	deforestation science fiction queer theory reparative reading Ursula Le Guin Vietnam War
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2410-9789/3/4/30