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Fredric Jameson criticizes that Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness simplifies the real world by erasing its historicity and presenting a world of androgyny. However, a group of feminist critiques depreciates the SF fiction as insufficiently feminist or even patriarchical because every homogeneous Gethenian in this fiction is called male pronoun ‘he.’ The feminist critics also point out that Le Guin reduces our real world to a sexual-distinction-dominated terrain by sex-typing Karhide as female, Orgoreyn as male, and Gobrin Ice Sheet as androgynous. The feminist critics are likely to agree to share Jameson’s terminology ‘world-reduction’ when they downplay The Left Hand of Darkness as non-feminist utopian fiction. As much as The Left Hand of Darkness reflects Lao Tzu’s socio-political practicality, however, it promotes world-extension rather than reduces the reality of our own world. For Le Guin suggests an alternative society where many kinds of discrimination are eliminated, along with Lao Tzu who proposes a non-authoritative communal state by practicing the Taoist politics of non-action. After reading The Left Hand of Darkness, now, the implied reader is supposed to extend his or her own view of world as s/he combines the two world-views, real and imagined. Besides, Le Guin’s Taoism-rooted world-view of interdependence complements the westerner’s hierarchical dualism involving conflict and collision, which results in a generic extension of the reader’s world-view.
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‘world-reduction, ’ world-extension, Ursula K. Le Guin, Lao-Tzu, interdependence
