ENG 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Commensalism, Gethen, 0 (Year)
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Her work largely presents alternate worlds, and then studies the aspects of politics, environment, religion, sexuality, and gender within their societies. She has won nearly every major literary award (both within science ction and outside) The left hand of darkness (1969) - a part of a larger series of stories called the. Tainish cycle (all feature the ekumen organization): peace keeping and relationship forming organization. Gethen: (winter: humans call it winter because we see the land as a harsh, arctic landscape but gethenians call it gethen because they see themselves as people while we see only a place, two countries. [2] orgoreyn = republic (dictatorship by a group); commensalities (groups): commensals: no war, but violence is a commonplace: murders and assassinations. Sinoth valley: contested piece of land between these two countries: ambisexual: can be either male or female in different situations.
