Spirituality and Resistance: Ursula Le Guin’s The Word for World is Forest and the Film Avatar
Avatar shares key narrative features with Ursula Le Guin’s 1972 novel The Word for World is Forest, including a depleted earth, exploitive resource extraction on another planet, and a successful revolt by the natives. Natives live in harmony with a natural world that is considered sacred and has bot...
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2010
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Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Year: 2010, Volume: 4, Issue: 4, Pages: 478-498 |
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