| The Past That Might Have Been, the Future That May Come: Women Writing Fantastic Fiction, 1960s to the Present Contributor(s): Lacey, Lauren J. (Author), Palumbo, Donald E. (Editor), Sullivan III, C. W. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0786478268 ISBN-13: 9780786478262 Publisher: McFarland & Company OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Science Fiction & Fantasy - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 823.087 |
| LCCN: 2013041749 |
| Series: Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.65 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book explores how contemporary fantastic fiction by women writers responds to the past and imagines the future. The first two chapters look at revisionist rewritings of fairy tales and historical texts; the third and fourth focus on future-oriented narratives including dystopias and space fiction. Writers considered include Margaret Atwood, Octavia E. Butler, Angela Carter, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing, and Jeanette Winterson, among others. The author argues that an analysis of how past and future are understood in women's fantastic fictions brings to light an ethics of becoming in the texts--a way of interrupting, revising and remaking problematic power structures that are tied to identity markers like class, gender and race. The book reveals how fantastic fiction can be read as narratives of disruption that enable the creation of an ethics of becoming. |