Title & Author:

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

Publication:

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

Description:

153 pages : maps, facsimiles ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
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.

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.

ISBN:

1068591811
9781068591815 (paperback)

Subject:

Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018.
Imaginary places in literature Maps.
Novelists, American.
Lieux imaginaires dans la littérature Cartes.
Romanciers américains.
illustration (process)
Illustration of books
Imaginary places in literature
Maps
Maps in literature

Form/genre:

Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.

Added entries:

Mayer, So, 1978- editor.
Shin, Sarah, 1981- editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 323334
Call No.: 323334
Copy: 1
Status: Available