for the writer

Description1) Please read Jedediah Purdy, “Introduction,” After Nature (I have attached it below)

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2) Please read Ursula LeGuin, The Word for World is Forest (I have attached it below)

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3) Order instructions: Ursula LeGuin’s novel The Word for World is Forest might be read in a number of ways: a speculative critique of the war in Vietnam; a postcolonial novel indicting the removal of Native communities in the Americas and elsewhere; a meditation on the categories of the human and nonhuman—the “Creechie” figure seemingly another form of human that hasn’t “evolved”; and perhaps also as a praxis for thinking about the different ways in which we view “nature”—what Purdy outlines as providential, Romantic, utilitarian, and ecological worldviews. Please read the novel from one of the interpretative lenses outlined above being sure to attend to the text’s formal elements to make your case.