Le Guin, Ursula K. - Deirdre Byrne (essay date 2000)
Deirdre Byrne (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: Byrne, Deirdre. “Truth and Story: History in Ursula K. Le Guin's Short Fiction and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.” In Future Females The Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism, edited by Marleen S. Barr, pp. 237-46. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
[In the following essay, Byrne argues that Le Guin's “recent Science Fiction and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Share important assumptions about truth, story, and how history is made.”]
Leon de Kock approaches history with particularly South African skepticism when he comments that the dialogue between events and history is inevitably agonistic, especially when cast in postmodern/poststructuralist terms (de Kock, Civilising 25-26). This is, in part, because events partake of an extra-discursive “reality,” whereas accounts are inscribed...
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