Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor

Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions

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Produktbeschreibung

Covering a range of texts from prominent feminist writers, this book examines notions of utopia in twenty-first-century speculative literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781107038356
• ISBN-10: 1107038359
• Artikelnr.: 37802492

Autorenporträt

Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor is an associate professor of Women's Studies and English at Penn State University. She is author/editor of four books, the most recent of which are this volume, and The Scandal of Susan Sontag (co-edited with Barbara Ching, 2009). She has published numerous articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: portals of possibility: speculative standpoint and feminist intervention
1. Learning the way of the world, and beyond: utopian imperatives and the female bildungsroman
2. 'With no guarantees, of course': the art of the possible
3. Archives of the heart: inventing history at the edge(s) of time
4. Always coming home, in America: enacting the romance of community
5. Looking east for news from nowhere: feminist mobility in Muslim women's speculative writing
Conclusion: being at home somewhere
References
Index.