On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Clarke girls wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was talking to an Anthropology grad student who like Ursula LeGuin
> because of the influences she got from her father who is a well-known
> Anthropologist... I didn't know this about her. Can anyone fill me in?
>
> Thanks
> Jacquie
>
Not only was her father, A.L. Korover, an anthropologist, but so was her
mother: see her lovely book _Isihi, Last of His Tribe_. If you want to
understand how Le Guin (LE GUIN, please, not LeGuin!) has been PROFOHNDLY
influenced by that, you need to read the fascinating article by Robert
Maslen in the Summer 1996 issue of FOUNDATION (no. 67). Even Ursula K.
liked it!
Edward James
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Professor Edward James, Dept of History, Faculty of Letters and Social
Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, READING RG6 6AA, UK
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/~lhsjamse/home.htm
Editor: FOUNDATION: THE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION
Joint Editor: EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE
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