Lauren J. Lacey

The Past That Might Have Been, the Future That May Come

Women Writing Fantastic Fiction, 1960s to the Present
Herausgeber: Palumbo, Donald E.; Sullivan, Iii C. W.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Nr.43
• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9780786478262
• ISBN-10: 0786478268
• Artikelnr.: 39122055

Autorenporträt

Lauren J. Lacey is an associate professor of English at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Fantastic Interventions One.
Beastly Beauty and Other Revisioned Fairy Tales Two.
Tampering with Time in Historical Narratives Three.
Working Through the Wreckage in Dystopian Fiction Four.
Becoming-Alien in Feminist Space Fiction Conclusion: Becoming Powerful Chapter Notes Works Cited Index