Written before the discussion of the Anthropocene took place, Le Guin’s novel deals with anxieties very similar to the ones we face today about the imminent destruction of our planet.
This presentation aims to analyze Ursula Le Guin’s novel The Word for World is Forest (1972) and its relation to the theories of the Anthropocene that have taken place since Crutzen (2000 2002) and Stoermer’s (2002) studies, more specifically the feminist ones (HARAWAY, 2016 TSING, 2015).
