‘It was quiet’: the radical architectures of understatement in feminist science fiction
Published online on October 15, 2022
Abstract
cultural geographies, Ahead of Print.
“Poisonless:a bare city, bright, the colours light and hard, the air pure. It was quiet.”The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin (1974)This is how Ursula K. Le Guin describes the city of Abbenay inThe Dispossessed. It is modest and unassuming. It is quiet. ...
“Poisonless:a bare city, bright, the colours light and hard, the air pure. It was quiet.”The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin (1974)This is how Ursula K. Le Guin describes the city of Abbenay inThe Dispossessed. It is modest and unassuming. It is quiet. ...