Michel Dohn
The following is a literary analysis of a selection of science-fiction novels and short stories from Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hainish cycle. Its primary focus lies on self-other dichotomies and it analyses the effects such binaries have of on personal and group identity construction and how they influence dynamics of social interaction.
I successively examine how Le Guin’s fictional societies divide people according to gender, nationality and race.