Friday, November 07, 2008
field research (the literature of loneliness)
Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed and Tove Jansson's Moominvalley in November, both of which feature characters in search of a kind of imaginary, perfected state of being that exists somewhere between the society of like-minded friends and the exquisite loneliness of an Emersonian self-reliance.
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Definitely not Avatar!
I had heard that Cameron had based Avatar partly on le Guin's The Word for World is Forest, but given the militaristic and colonial nature of Cameron's film, this seems like a cruel joke. Both Jansson and le Guin use sci fi or fantasy to create scenarios that explore the alienation of ourselves from our self and our world, not the conquest of the unknown by the ignorant!
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I had heard that Cameron had based Avatar partly on le Guin's The Word for World is Forest, but given the militaristic and colonial nature of Cameron's film, this seems like a cruel joke. Both Jansson and le Guin use sci fi or fantasy to create scenarios that explore the alienation of ourselves from our self and our world, not the conquest of the unknown by the ignorant!
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