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LOH biographical context, historical context, media afterlife Flashcards

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where was LeGuin born?

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Berkeley

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why did LeGuin’s father move to Berkeley?

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to create a museum and department of anthropology at uc berkeley

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what degree did Theodora Krober (Leguin’s mother) receive at Berkeley?

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masters in clinical psychology

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what controversy are LeGuin’s parents best known for?

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their relationship to a man known as Ishi, who was likely the last surviving member of the Yahi tribe.

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Yana tribe

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(Yahi is a subgroup of this tribe) they lived in the foothills of Mount Lassen before white people. most were killed by militia. in 1908 a small group was found; only Ishi and his mother were able to survive when this small group was looted

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When was Ishi found alive without his mother?

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august 1911

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what happened to Ishi after he was held in jail?

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Alfred Kroeber (Leguin’s father) and Thomas Waterman gained custody of him and made him a janitor at UC san diego. Kroeber saw him as a way to gain insight into the dying California Indian culture

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what two biographies did Theodora Kroeber write about Ishi?

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Ishi in Two Worlds (1961) and the children’s version, Ishi, the Last of His Tribe (1964)

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Why was the Kroeber’s relationship with Ishi considered controversial?

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some see it as an appropriation and exploitation of an indigenous man’s voice

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In 2021, what did Berkeley do in consolidation with native people?

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removed the name Kroeber from Kroeber hall

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what architectural artwork was LeGuin raised in?

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Semper Virens (always green) by Bernard Maybeck

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LeGuin’s childhood vacation home in Napa Valley, Kishamish, inspired which of her books?

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Always Coming Home (1985)

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what was LeGuins other lifelong retreat (beside Kishamish)?

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her family’s cottage in Cannon Beach, Oregon

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Leguin’s essay/lecture “Indian Uncles”

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inspired by her fathers friends, the Papago Juan Dolores and the Yurok Robert Spott.

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generally speaking how was Leguin’s upbringing?

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loving and unaware of the darker things in life

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J. Robert Oppenheimer (family friend) inspired which of LeGuin’s characters?

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the protagonist Shevek in The Dispossessed

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what SF author went to LeGuin’s high-school?

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Phillip K Dick

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what degrees did LeGuin receive?

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Masters in Renaissance French and Italian language and literature from Columbia

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where did LeGuin meet her husband?

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aboard the Queen Marry in 1953

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where did LeGuin and Charles Leguin (husband) live for most of their adult life?

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Portland, Oregon

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what editor praised Leguin’s skill but (like many others) didn’t know how to market her work?

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Alfred Knopf

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how was Leguin able to publish her work?

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she began to send short stories to SF magazines like Amazing stories

23
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what were LeGuin’s earliest novels?

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Rocannon’s World (1966), Planet of Exile (1966), and City of Illusions (1967)

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A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) by LeGuin

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a global bestseller, the first book in LeGuin’s Earthsea series

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The Lathe of Heaven (1971)

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won the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus award for best novel

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The Left Hand of Darkness

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one of the first novels to speculate about gender fluidity. influenced by second wave feminism

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The dispossessed (1975)

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won the Hugo, Nebula, and the Locus award

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The Tombs of Atuan

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selected as a Newberry Honor Book by the American Library Association

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The Farthest Shore

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won the National Book Award for Children’s literature

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Always Coming Home (1985)

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set in future California. Involved collaboration with a geologist, artist, and composer (the original version was published with a cassette). Won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and was a runner up for the National Book Award.

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Lavinia

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a retelling of the Aeneid from Lavinia’s point of view. won the Locus award

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Steering the Craft (1998) by LeGuin

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a handbook on writing

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which awards had LeGuin won by the end of her career?

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a National Book Award, seven Hugo Awards, six Nebula Awards, the Howard Vursell Award, the PEN/Malamud award, and the National Book Foundation Medal for distinguished contribution to American Letters (2014)

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what did the library of congress name Leguin?

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a living legend

35
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how many of LeGuin’s books have been finalists for the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize?

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three

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What two things were The Left Hand of Darkness inspired by according to LeGuin?

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the image of two people pulling an ice sledge and the question: what does it mean to be male or female?

37
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which of Leguins works are most influenced by feminism?

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Tehanu, The Other Wind, Lavinia, and The Left Hand of Darkness

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Authors who, like LeGuin, infiltrated SF when it was white & male dominated

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Allie Sheldon (under pseudonyms James Tiptree and Racoona Sheldon), Joanna Russ, Margret Atwood, Marge Piercy, Vonda N. McIntyre, Elizabeth Lynn, Kate Willhelm

39
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The Word for World is Forest (1968)

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depicts moral issues of the Vietnam war like the use of chemical weapons (e.g. agent orange). contemplates cold war tensions, past atrocities, and also ongoing human rights violations

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ecological concerns like global warming influences which of LeGuin’s works?

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The Lathe of Heaven (1971)

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What other ecological concern is present in the Lathe of Heaven (besides global warming)?

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the reemergence of deadly diseases, like Kwashiorkor - caused by lack of protein

42
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Always Coming Home addresses which ecological concerns?

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recycling, sustainability, and ecological resource management

43
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He Who Shapes (1965) by Roger Zelazny

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The Lathe of Heaven is sometimes compared to this novella; it features a physician who uses technology to shape and share others’ dreams and help them with psychiatric issues

44
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LOH was originally published in which magazine?

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The march and may issues of Amazing Science Fiction

45
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What company published LOH as a standalone novel in 1971?

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Charles Scribner’s Sons

46
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The Lathe of Heaven (1979) film version

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directed by David Loxton and Fred Barzyk, LeGuin was a consultant. It was PBS’s first made-for-tv movie.

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cinematographic tricks in LOH film version

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the augmentor gets more and more outrageous as the film goes on. also reflects influence of contemporary video art with dark modernist architecture to convey an uncertain future

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LOH film version accolades

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the most request program in PBS history, nominated for a Hugo, nominated for a Writer’s guild award, Entertainment Weekly named it one of the top one hundred works of SF

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The Lathe of Heaven (2002) film version

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directed by Alan Sharpe and Philip Hass. discards philosophical underpinnings, themes of racism, and removes the aliens altogether. Disappointment to SF fans and LeGuin

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The Lathe of Heaven (2002) accolades

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nominated for a 2003 Saturn Award

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