Travels in Subjectivity: Post(Genomic) Humanism in Ursula K. LeGuin’s Changing Planes

Travel literature conventionally treats the traveler’s hegemonic encounter with difference; in her mock travel narrative Ursula LeGuin imagines how the postmodern traveler in a global, biotechnological age might begin to develop a more cosmopolitan understanding of diversity by means of a radical rethinking of Western preconceptions about ontology, self, and subjectivity.