Female vampires prowl the streets at night, spreading terror; suburban housewives have tender affairs with monsters and happily leave the earth on alien spaceships; ostensibly occupied with needlework, grandmothers and spinsters work to overthrow a dystopian patriarchy by creating a women's language. As these plots demonstrate, the fantastic purposely and consciously violates verisimilitude and opens up a space for the articulation of female desires - it describes realities which have been excluded from dominant constructions as non-existent, as impossibilities in a supposedly natural order. The special affinity of women's writing and the fantastic as a literary mode characterizes writers such as Edith Wharton, Jean Rhys, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Octavia Butler.
Zielgruppe/Target group: Literaturwissenschaftler, Amerikanisten
Zielgruppe/Target group: Literaturwissenschaftler, Amerikanisten