Anarchism, Freedom, and Community in The Dispossessed: A Reading of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Ambiguous Utopia

• In Event: Community and Otherness in Literature and Film

Brief Overview

The paper offers a reading of Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed (1974). Le Guin anarchistic utopian novel illustrates how local, voluntaristic communities are essential in generating and sustaining a meaningful form of human freedom.

Author

• James Paul Old, Valparaiso University