“Wheels turning in opposite directions”: the Utopian Dynamics of Individual and Collective Temporality in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed and Sheri S. Tepper’s The Gate to Women’s Country

Einstein may deem objective temporality an illusion, but temporal relations of self and other still strongly shape our lived experience. I explore how individual and communal temporality function in two apparently “ideal” societies, Anarres in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed (1974) and Women’s...

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Main Author: Sarah Lohmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research 2022-12-01
Series:Fafnir
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Online Access:http://journal.finfar.org/articles/2569.pdf