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The Library In The Mountains And The Writing On The Wall : Fragmented Memories And Cultural Amnesia In Ursula K. Le Guin, Erin Michelle Roll
The Library In The Mountains And The Writing On The Wall : Fragmented Memories And Cultural Amnesia In Ursula K. Le Guin, Erin Michelle Roll
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
Memory, especially its loss, plays a prominent role in the work of Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929). The Telling (2000) and Voices (2006), two of Le Guin’s most recent works, go into great detail on what happens when a memory is lost or destroyed, usually under duress. The former, the last book in Le Guin’s Hainish cycle, deals with a goal to preserve books and learning from a regime that has made it a misguided goal to eradicate all elements of past culture in an effort to modernize the country. In the latter, part of Le Guin’s Annals of …