Episode 64: Dreams and Shadows: On Ursula Le Guin's 'A Wizard of Earthsea'
Weird Studies
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The Limits of Imagination
In a sense, the larger realism that Ursula Gwen is talking about is a reality that goes beyond what we perceive to be reality. In fact, we don't really know why gravity exists or whether it'll exist tomorrow. And in fiction, there's no a priori reason to privilege the scientific explanation over the magical explanation. The purpose of fiction is not merely to represent things, but to enact changes in us that we become more conscious of systems of oppression and therefore are more apt to do something about them. That is what fiction is for you being some kind of vaniy-y hippie have simply decided that dreams are where it's at. I say that it's social
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