SOPHIA AL-MARIA
May 01, 2019
2 minutes
NED CARTER MILES
n her essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,” writer Ursula K. Le Guin makes the case for an alternative view of history, and of art. Expanding on the idea that early humans survived for the most part by gathering rather than hunting, she argues against narratives organized around phallic objects—symbolizing hunting and other forms of violence—and the
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