Alien Plots: Female Subjectivity and the Divine in the Light of James Tiptree's 'a Momentary Taste of Being' Contributor(s): Van Der Spek, Inez (Author) |
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ISBN: 0853238243 ISBN-13: 9780853238249 Publisher: Liverpool University Press OUR PRICE: $32.67 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2000 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Science Fiction & Fantasy - Literary Criticism | Feminist |
Dewey: 813.54 |
LCCN: 00421438 |
Lexile Measure: 1450 |
Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.92 lbs) 247 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: At the heart of this stimulating and provocative study is a science fiction story by James Tiptree Jr (Alice Sheldon-Bradley, 1916-1987) about a brother and a sister (and 58 other human beings) who encounter an alien while on a starship travelling to discover a habitable planet. The book includes an outline of Tiptree's work and of her remarkable life as the only child of jungle explorers, as a painter, an American agent during and after World War II, an experimental psychologist, and a female science fiction writer in male disguise. |