ABSTRACT

Autoethnography is a textual moment of writing enquiry which seeks to set creativity, aesthetics and the imagination in movement towards transformation of the self and social world. In this chapter, I share the ways in which the fiction and non-fiction works of feminist science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin provide possible ways to make such imaginative moves. In particular, I focus on the feminist and ethnographic sense-abilities in her writing as a deep mediation on the ethics of relationality between self and other, and ways in which we might unlearn words and language of opposition, domination and oppression to write the world differently and beyond. The literary style in this chapter mimics the speculative fiction of Le Guin and weaves her writing and writing about writing with a creative reading of the moment of encounter between us.