The word for world : the maps of Ursula K. Le Guin / edited by So Mayer and Sarah Shin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mayer, So, 1978- editor.

Shin, Sarah, 1981- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018.

Le Guin, Ursula K.

Imaginary places in literature--Maps.

Imaginary places in literature.

Novelists, American.

illustration (process).

Illustration of books.

Maps.

Maps in literature.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

153 pages : maps, facsimiles ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Silver Press : AA Publications , 2025.

Summary:

"When Ursula K. Le Guin started writing a new story, she would begin by drawing a map. The Word for World presents a selection of these images by the celebrated author, many of which have never been published before, to consider how her imaginary worlds enable us to re-envision our own. Le Guin's maps offer journeys of consciousness beyond conventional cartography, from the Rorschach-like archipelagos of Earthsea to the talismanic maps of Always Coming Home. Rather than remaining within known terrain, they open up paradigms of knowledge, exemplified by the map's edges and how a map is read, made and re-made, together. The Word for World brings her maps together with poems, stories, interviews, recipes and essays by contributors from a variety of perspectives to enquire into the relationship between worlds and how they are represented and imagined. Contributors: Federico Campagna, Theo Downes-Le Guin, Daniel Heath Justice, Bhanu Kapil, Canisia Lubrin, Una McCormack, David Naimon, Nisha Ramayya, Shoshone Collective, Standard Deviation, Marilyn Strathern.Co-published by Spiral House and AA Publications to coincide with an exhibition of Ursula K. Le Guin's maps at the Architectural Association, London, opening on 10 October 2025."-- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction: Pandora can't read the map / So Mayer and Sarah Shin

Maps of Earthsea / Ursula K Le Guin

The geography of imagination / Theo Downes-Le Guin

Mapping the inland sea: landlines and waterways / David Naimon

Buffalo stew / Restoring Shoshone Ancestral Foods Gathering Group

Maps of the valley / Ursula K Le Guin

Seasons / Federico Campagna

this place is a message / Nisha Ramayya

Legend / Standard Deviation

The clearing / Bhanu Kapil

Cartographic kinscapes / An interview with Daniel Heath Justice

Hainish worlds / Ursula K Le Guin

The dark passages of the mind / Una McCormack

World maps: word maps / Marilyn Strathern

ATTN:CHECKPOINT 41 (16th C) / Canisia Lubrin

Historical and late fiction / Ursula K Le Guin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1068591811

9781068591815

OCLC:

1520212895

Publisher Number:

CIPO000319619