The Dispossessed (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction
- Time of Work: The distant future
- Setting: The twin planets of Urras and Anarres
- Principal Characters: Shevek, Takver, Bedap, Rulag, Sabul, Atro, Vea Doem Oiie
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Dystopian fiction, Utopian fiction
- Subjects: Politics, Revolutionaries, Gender roles, Communication, Future, Other worlds, Time, Utopias, Anarchism or anarchists, Physics or physicists, Societies
- Locales: Anarres (fictive), Urras (fictive)
Form and Content
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia is the story of the twin planets Anarres and Urras. Anarres is populated by the descendants of the Settlers, a radical anarchist group which broke away from Urrasti society. The Settlers are the followers of the philosopher Odo, who advocated a society without centralized control or even organized government or religion. Urras, the planet from which the Odonians wished to escape, is very similar to Earth (or Terra, as it is referred to in the novel): It is a planet dominated by competing forms of government and...
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