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Light and Shadow—Postgender Intersubjectivity in The Left Hand of Darkness
ZHANG Na
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2016.04.007
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China Guangdong Science Center, Guangzhou, China
The Left Hand of Darkness (abbr. LHD) is composed by Ursula Le Guin as a “thought experiment” to explore the postgender world on the planet of Gethen. By eradication of sexual difference and embracing the biological fluidity and psychological androgeny, dualism is deconstructed, and a postgender intersubjective space is reconstructed between Genly Ai and Estraven, interluded by cyborg myth and postgenderism culture narratives. Moreover, Le Guin suggests a possible transformation mode of yin-yang cycle from psychoanalytic light and shadow.
postgenderism, intersubjectivity, cyborg, science fiction, narratology
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