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SUMMARY:: Liverpool Biennial: The Liquid Club #8: The Fisherwoman's Daughte
 r by Ursula Le Guin
DESCRIPTION:Book here\n\nThe Liquid Club is a monthly discussion group whic
 h invites collective thinking and drives the development of Liverpool Bien
 nial 2020.\n\nIn our previous discussion\, we examined Denise Ferreira da 
 Silva’s argument on how the racial is integral to facilitating global ca
 pital’s access to productive resources such as bodies and land. Furtheri
 ng the ethical dimension of Silva’s question\, we propose to think of et
 hics as a place of articulation that would respond to the question of care
 .\n\nFor this month’s Liquid Club we will read Ursula Le Guin’s “The
  Fisherwoman’s Daughter” (1988)\, a non-fiction essay that reflects on
  the struggle to combine writing and motherhood. Here\, Le Guin revisits a
  scene from Margaret Drabble’s The Millstone in which the narrator is 
 working on a book review\, not realising that her eight-month-old baby is 
 eating her flatmate’s manuscript novel. The episode is a symbolic repres
 entation of the dilemmas women face in being forced to choose between writ
 ing or having children\, with the implication that one would necessarily k
 ill the other. Le Guin also tackles the lack of women’s representation a
 s writers in fiction. She discusses how the realities of women in literatu
 re have often been portrayed through the lens of the other – husband\, l
 over\, son – rather than the woman herself.\n\nLe Guin was one of the mo
 st influential feminist writers of her generation. Being part of what is c
 onventionally referred to as the “New Wave” of American science fictio
 n writers in the 1960s and 1970s\, her groundbreaking novels have upended 
 the genre’s conventions as epitomised in The Left Hand of Darkness (19
 69). But\, beyond her limitless imagination\, it is in her understanding o
 f the life of a writer where she highlights the practice of care. In “Th
 e Fisherwoman’s Daughter”\, Le Guin comments on the ways in which wome
 n writers have helped one another throughout history: “…there is a her
 oic aspect to the practice of art\; it is lonely\, risky\, merciless work\
 , and every artist needs some kind of moral support or sense of solidarity
  and validation.”\n\nKEY TEXT\n\nUrsula Le Guin\, “The Fisherwoman’s
  Daughter”\, 1988\nDownload text\n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR\n\nUrsula K. Le Gui
 n (1929–2018) was an American author of speculative and realistic fictio
 n\, screenplays\, essays\, poetry\, literary critiques and children's fict
 ion\, among others. She was primarily known for her works of speculative f
 iction\, including works set in the fictional world of Earthsea\, stories 
 in the Hainish Cycle\, and standalone novels and short stories. Though fre
 quently referred to as a science fiction author\, critics have described h
 er work as being difficult to classify. Le Guin has won many awards\, incl
 uding a National Book Award\, a Pushcart Prize and the World Fantasy Award
  for Life Achievement.\n\nTHE LIQUID CLUB\n\nHeld on the first Wednesday o
 f every month\, The Liquid Club is a mobile platform activated at differen
 t venues across Liverpool. On each occasion\, reading material including t
 exts\, films and music are distributed in advance online. It is free and o
 pen to all.\n\nPlease note spaces are limited and advance booking is requi
 red
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