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	Dispossessed
		As many as three million of these dispossessed souls crowd into tent cities, abandoned warehouses, vermin-infested public shelters, and skid-row back alleys today.
		The United Nations has designated 1987 as the International Year of the Homeless to draw attention to this looming crisis and to propose some solutions-more governmental control, centralization of the economy, and the abolition of private property.
		In The Dispossessed, he asserts that the solutions to homelessness can be found in the Bible, and he describes what those solutions are in a practical, understandable, compelling style.
	freebooks.commentary.net /freebooks/docs/2106_47e.htm (265 words)

	The Dispossessed
		This was, however, less due to a desire to help others than it was to a desire to gather around him others who had been through the same experience that he had, presumably because he felt he could trust them not to return him to the howling plane permanently.
		It is a sign of the increasing importance amongst the Dispossessed of the Carcerian Exiles, and there is considerable antagonism between those who have escaped from Carceri and Pandemonium.
		The attitude of the Dispossessed towards the factions, however, is much the same as their attitude towards everyone else.
	www.mimir.net /sects/dispossessed.shtml (3079 words)

	Victor Urbanowicz- Personal and Political in The Dispossessed
		To say that The Dispossessed is about an anarchist society is rather like saying that Paradise Lost is about the Christian notion of the Fall: such a statement ignores the strong partisanship of the author of the piece.
		In the same place she also says that her conscious purpose in writing The Dispossessed was "to embody it [anarchism] in a novel, which had not been done before" (here, incidentally, is the epic writer's claim to do the yet unattempted).
		The principal action of The Dispossessed does not criticize anarchist theory at all, but clarifies it and portrays its strengths: Shevek, the protagonist, aided by his libertarian upbringing as much as hindered by it, becomes aware of his society's defects and moves effectively to repair them.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/15/urbanowicz15art.htm (4357 words)

	Soyuz: The Research Network for Postsocialist Studies
		This is not to suggest that the experiences of the dispossessed are somehow less real or painful because they are discursively mediated, but rather to question the critique of capitalism that is being extracted from the narratives of the dispossessed.
		Nazpary's attention to the voice of the dispossessed often brings him to the concept of nostalgia to describe references to the good elements of the Soviet past in the narratives of the dispossessed.
		The dispossessed organize in networks based on kinship and friendship, within which interactions are characterized by reciprocity and trust, whereas relations between networks are governed by the often violent struggles for survival.
	www.uvm.edu /~soyuz/reviews/nazparyrev.html (1201 words)

	Ursula K. LeGuin's The Dispossessed: A Glossary
		In The Dispossessed, Shevek argues (to Bedap) that society on Anarres is corrupt and conformist because it is impoverished.
		The Dispossessed is a novel of ideas in that its main character, Shevek, is a sort of noble, activist scientist (like Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, or J. Robert Oppenheimer were) born into a world that operates according to anarchist social principles.
		In The Dispossessed, Anarres is a utopia in that it is free of the bad things that occur on Urras, mostly due to the fact that there is no bad government on Anarres, and because all of the anarchist promises of Odonianism have come true.
	www.geocities.com /senorefe/glossary.html (3452 words)

	Amazon.com: The Dispossessed: Books: Ursula K. Le Guin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		"The Dispossessed" is a utopian/dystopian novel along the lines of "Brave New World" or "The Handmaid's Tale." Although Le Guin creates an atmosphere of tension, there's not a lot of action (at least for the first three quarters of the book)--so readers expecting more "traditional" science fiction or surprising plot twists will certainly be dissatisfied.
		Annares, the home of the "Dispossessed," is a 175-year-old rebel outpost of anarchists who have established "an experiment in nonauthoritarian communism" that emphasizes community and cooperation and who must make the most of the limited resources on their desert planet to avert the constant threat of starvation.
		Instead, she posits an attractive and idealistic society, contrasts it with a world with an appealing facade and an unattractive underclass, and shows how human nature tends to corrupt even the most well-meaning of civilizations.
	www.amazon.com /Dispossessed-Ursula-K-Guin/dp/0061054887 (1713 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Dispossessed
		The Dispossessed -- which has not been out of print since its original publication in 1974 -- is perhaps Le Guin's most famous work, and arguably her most intellectually challenging.
		It's a book of opposites: a utopian novel that doesn't flinch from exposing the flaws of its model society, a feminist-themed narrative with a male protagonist, a social commentary that presents communal cooperation as the truest human ideal, yet focuses on the inevitable separateness of the creative individual within such a structure.
		This larger theme, together with Le Guin's mature mastery of her craft, give The Dispossessed a universality that has prevented it from becoming dated, despite its roots in the political issues of its time (the communal counterculture of the late 60s and early 70s, the original women's movement).
	www.sfsite.com /01b/dis73.htm (1312 words)

	Cyprus :: MYSTERY of pre 1974 PROPERTY TITLE DEEDS of the Dispossessed
		In my opinion, the UN should have been, and should be, entrusted to take care of the original title deeds of the dispossessed property owners.
		I also believe that the dispossessed should have been able to request that copies of the originals be issued to them.
		Surely, this matter should take priority over pointless arduous exercises by both sides in making their own new deeds and should be a pre-requsisite to any further UN backed settlement negotiations concerning property of the dispossessed.
	www.cyprus-forum.com /cyprus228.html (898 words)

	Lost Books Guest Reviews - The Dispossessed - Review by Ariel Vered
		The Dispossessed is not a novel of Speculative Fiction, but a Greek tragedy set in some ambiguous future.
		That criticism is no longer relevant to us today, and the books have been relegated to cartoons and children's adaptations, lauded today for their colorful imagination instead of their social and political commentary.
		Perhaps The Dispossessed is a book that should be carefully stored away, and unwrapped in another 40 or 50 years, so that a generation, fortunate enough to never have heard of Krushev, will be able to understand the Cold War through the eyes of contemporary authors.
	www.lostbooks.org /guestreviews/2001-07-06-1.html (1549 words)

	Anarchist review of The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin
		THE DISPOSSESSED is a classic of science fiction, and also one of the few novels, of any description, which deals honestly and openly with anarchist ideas, and, for this reason, is one of the most oft-cited influences on anarchists today.
		Alternating with this is the story of his experiences in the capitalist society of Urras, and the effect his return has on each society.
		What makes 'The Dispossessed' so much better than most utopian novels, or dystopias like 'Brave New World', is that this is a novel.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/ws99/leguin58.html (961 words)

	V. S. Naipaul and the Plight of the Dispossessed
		Writing as a dispossessed person, one who has been culturally uprooted and forced to create his own world, Naipaul presents not objective reality but subjective perceptions.
		Dispossession is a state into which one is born, a fact not of one’s own choosing.
		Having sensed this dispossession, the former colonial begins to fantasize, to dream of greater reality, and seeks to create the conditions of liberation.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=1354 (2314 words)

	Epic of the Dispossessed Derek Walcott's Omeros Robert D. Hamner
		Hamner describes Omeros as an epic of the dispossessed because each of its protagonists is a castaway in one sense or another.
		Regardless of whether their ancestry is traced to the classical Mediterranean, Europe, Africa, or confined to the Americas, they are transplanted individuals whose separate quests all center on the fundamental human need to strike roots in a place where one belongs.
		Epic of the Dispossessed will be a valuable companion to the work that may prove to be Walcott's crowning achievement.
	www.umsystem.edu /upress/fall1997/hamner.htm (392 words)

	The Dispossessed: Chronicles of the Desterrados of Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Dispossessed: Chronicles of the Desterrados of Colombia
		This is an incredibly moving and powerful collection that represents the experiences of the hundreds of thousands of Colombians who have been displaced by the daily violence that occurs in their country.
		While some analysis and commentary are included in the form of an introduction and appendix (which look at the years of fighting and violence between guerrillas and paramilitaries, U.S. military aid, and so forth), the actual testimonios of the Colombians interviewed show the direct human impact and tragedy caused by this violence and displacement.
	www.americas.org /bookstore/product_10547 (102 words)

	Takver's Anarres - Comments on Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed and Anarchism
		The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.
		The name is taken from the founder of their society, Odo, who lived several generations before the time of the novel, and who therefore doesn't get into the action - except implicitly, in that all the action started with her.
		But together with her activism as a person and as a writer, it is clear she understands the philosophy of anarchism and shares a close affinity.
	www.takver.com /me/odonian.htm (3723 words)

	The Catholic Church in England and Wales: The Dispossessed
		Dispossessed people demonstrate an enormous capacity to overcome their violent reality, to survive and to sow seeds of renewal and hope in places where there is no hope.
		The dispossessed, the poor, the vulnerable all have a special place in the Bible.
		In reading it and trying to understand what it says we may learn how, in truth and in faith, we can respond to the plight of the dispossessed.
	www.catholic-ew.org.uk /resource/dispossessed/index.htm (287 words)

	The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia \| Classic Book Reviews \| SCI FI Weekly
		In The Dispossessed, as with The Left Hand of Darkness, she immerses a single member of one society into the depths of the other.
		This understanding parallels the unmasking of the Urrasti rich and his embrace of the dispossessed.
		The Dispossessed, which earned both a Hugo and a Nebula award, is an outstanding example of how to explore society as an organism that's fed by human interactions, reshaping and reshaped by the people and ideas that comprise it.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/books/classic/sfw4760.html (595 words)

	Classic Science Fiction Reviews
		Shevek realizes his only chance of finding friends on Urras is among the dispossessed, those who, like himself (and all Anarreans), have nothing.
		The other starts with Shevek's childhood and builds toward the crucial realization that his society is becoming enslaved by public opinion, and because they're convinced of their righteousness they can't even see it.
		The Dispossessed takes place in the same universe as the earlier Left Hand of Darkness, though it's very much in the background.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue125/classic.html (595 words)

	A thought for the dispossessed
		For a long time wealth and its actual material representations such as gold, silver, food and cattle were used for the purpose of exchanges between labour and violence, between the dispossessed and the one in possession.
		But this direct and equal exchange was replaced by the exchange of mere imagery of wealth when the collective human labour had extracted a lot more from Nature than its collective needs.
		And even while we are all made to believe that the market is taking over the nation state, the exchange of wealth must be carried out in the secrecy and anonymity of cyber space.
	www.hinduonnet.com /folio/fo0008/00080060.htm (1113 words)

	UMass Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press
		Contributors explore the politics of rescue, the dependency of the dispossessed, the role of key players and concerned citizens willing to extend themselves to provide safe havens and new opportunities for those forced to flee their homelands, and examples of the contributions of refugees, particularly refugee intellectuals, to their host societies.
		Throughout the volume there are two unifying motifs-the plight of displaced people, be they escapees, expellees, or hapless victims caught in the crossfire of other peoples' conflicts, and the role of others in attempting to mitigate their predicaments.
		The contributors to this volume were all faculty and fellows of a year-long colloquium on "The Anatomy of Exile" at Smith College or participants in one of two conferences held in conjunction with the colloquium.
	www.umass.edu /umpress/fall_04/rose.html (523 words)

	The Dispossessed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Dispossessed were once part of the mighty Night Lords legion.
		Now on their own, The Dispossessed kill and pillage for the glory of Khorne in their never-ending quest for power.
		The Berzerkers, Chaos Lord, retinue and their Rhinos are all in Khornate colors, while the rest of the army retains a Night Lords color scheme.
	www.briareos.org /steve/chaos.html (176 words)

	Politics of the Dispossessed — www.greenwood.com
		Maintaining that the state is an instrument of class domination, exhibiting a certain degree of autonomy in the creation and design of domestic development programs, he details the role of class in an attempt to provide a better understanding of the diverse factors at work.
		Politics of the Dispossessed provides an alternative analysis of development in regional politics and its context in world politics, aspects that are generally neglected by most mainstream studies.
		It examines state formation, internal development strategies, and how class conflict and ideology led to class alliance on an international basis, as well as the external interference in the internal affairs of these societies.
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/C7365.aspx (257 words)

	The Dispossessed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Dispossessed is about the physicist Shevek, and his mathematical research which makes possible the ansible, a faster-than-light communications device.
		The story alternates between episodes from his early life on his home planet Anarres, whose inhabitants are an anarchist colony who have no concept of property or government, and chapters detailing his experiences on Anarres' twin planet Urras, in a society which functions on late capitalist lines.
		The most controversial part of The Dispossessed is the portrayal of Anarres, which is indeed viewed by most of its inhabitants as a Utopia.
	explorers.whyte.com /sf/disp.htm (1751 words)

	Protecting the Dispossessed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In this book a substantially revised version of his report to the UN, Deng examines the causes and consequences of internal displacement, the legal standards for protection and assistance, enforcement mechanisms, the prevailing conditions in the affected countries, and the urgent need for an international response.
		In a compelling first-person narrative, Protecting the Dispossessed follows Deng's investigation and is based on interviews and information from governments, international organizations, individuals, and visits to several countries in Europe, Africa, and Latin America.
		Deng argues that sovereignty entails a responsibility to ensure the safety and welfare of the citizens and to protect fundamental human rights; the international community must uphold this standard and make violators accountable.
	www.brookings.edu /press/books/dispossd.htm (500 words)

	SF Signal: REVIEW: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
		It was to my pleasant surprise, then, that The Dispossessed, winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula Awards in 1975, made me take stock of my own personal feelings towards politics in science fiction, if not politics itself.
		To its credit, The Dispossessed made this apolitical reader stop and think (if not about politics itself) about why I usually don't like politics in fiction.
		The Dispossessed is a rare find in that it managed to keep up my interest throughout the story.
	www.sfsignal.com /archives/002691.html (735 words)

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		Before the great Colorado gold rush, the Rocky Mountains obtainable little to draw settlers, except "hairy bank notes," the beaver pelts award-winning by fur trappers, traders and fashionably hated gentlemen in Eastern America and Europe.
		The Mile High City’s violent leadership, spearheaded by William N. Byers, founding editor of the Rocky Mountain News, and Territorial Governor John Evans, be adamanted that the Indians must go.
		After dispossess the natives, Denverites built a network of railroads that made their town the banking, minting, supply and processing center not only for Colorado, but for neighboring states.
	www.barrystickets.com /cities/denver-tickets.php (689 words)

	The Dispossessed
		The Dispossessed is about the physicist Shevek, and his mathematical research which makes possible the ansible, a faster-than-light communications device.
		The most controversial part of The Dispossessed is the portrayal of Anarres, which is indeed viewed by most of its inhabitants as a Utopia.
		To contrast it again with the spaceships-and-aliens in Rendezvous with Rama and The Forever War, Le Guin's spaceships are dull devices for getting from planet A to planet B, and her aliens turn out to be from Earth, and not very different from the narrator.
	www.nicholaswhyte.info /sf/disp.htm (1751 words)

	Ursula LeGuin--The Dispossessed
		This edition of The Dispossessed is part of Millenium's SF Masterworks series, which describes itself as "a library of the greatest SF ever written, chosen with the help of today's leading SF writers and editors".
		The Dispossessed is two separate stories, told in alternating chapters: of Shevek's life leading up to his decision to leave Anarres, and of what happens once he reaches Urras.
		Shevek's insistence on fulfilling the demands of his prodigious intellect is regarded by his Anarresti colleagues as "egoism", since it takes him down avenues his people don't value, and places individual endeavor above the common good.
	www.sff.net /people/victoriastrauss/ReviewDispossessed.html (1301 words)

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