Ursula k. Le Guin’s Earthsea and its place in the American West’s literary landscape.

Alkorta, Jon

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Ursula k. Le Guin’s Earthsea and its place in the American West’s literary landscape.

dc.contributor.author	Alkorta, Jon
dc.contributor.department	University of the Basque Country (Spain)	es
dc.date.accessioned	2025-07-16T11:00:50Z
dc.date.available	2025-07-16T11:00:50Z
dc.date.issued	2025
dc.description.abstract	As a writer that incessantly directed her efforts towards raising her readers’ awareness of social, racial, and gender issues, American writer Ursula K. Le Guin’s fantasy work has been rather overlooked by literary criticism. Thus, the present paper seeks to claim this writer’s prominent position as a writer of the American West, as well as proposing her Earthsea saga as a rightful contribution to the literature of the American West. With this in mind, the paper will argue that Le Guin achieves this by combining elements that belong to the more traditional literature of the West, as is the idea of mobility, with some of the more modern proposals made by the regional perspective of the second half of the past century.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	Alkorta, J. (2025). Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea and Its Place in the American West’s Literary Landscape. International Journal of English Studies, 25(1), 155–170. https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.603991	es
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.603991
dc.identifier.issn	1578-7044
dc.identifier.issn	1989-6131 (Internet)
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/157452
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones.	es
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad.	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Ursula K. Le Guin	en
dc.subject	Fantasy	en
dc.subject	American West	en
dc.subject	Literarytradition	en
dc.subject	Mobility	en
dc.subject	Regionalism	en
dc.subject.other	CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura	es
dc.title	Ursula k. Le Guin’s Earthsea and its place in the American West’s literary landscape.	en
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
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