Le Guin, Ursula K. - Elyce Rae Helford (essay date autumn 1997)
Elyce Rae Helford (essay date autumn 1997)
SOURCE: Helford, Elyce Rae. “Going ‘Native’: Le Guin, Misha, and the Politics of Speculative Literature.” Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, no. 71 (autumn 1997): 77-88.
[In the following essay, Helford examines Le Guin's “Buffalo Gals Won't You Come out Tonight,” finding it a “highly problematic cultural text, embedded in Anglo-Native American struggles over language, meaning, and culture; rich in the contradictions of the white, mainstream worldview through which it was written.”]
Imagine—white Canadians and Americans telling Native stories because their governments outlawed Native languages and lifeways, and punished those of us who resisted.
(Lenore Keeshig-Tobias, p. 119)
If you want to write our stories, then be prepared to live with us.
(Maria Campbell, quoted in Keeshig-Tobias,...
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