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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452212003321

Autore

Melzer Patricia <1970->

Titolo

Alien constructions [[electronic resource] ] : science fiction and feminist thought / / Patricia Melzer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2006

ISBN

0-292-79582-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Disciplina

813/.08762099287

Soggetti

Science fiction, American - History and criticism

Science fiction, English - History and criticism

Feminism in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-315) and index.

Includes filmography: p. 315-316.

Nota di contenuto

Cultural chameleons : anticolonial identities and resistance in Octavia E. Butler's Survivor and dawn -- The alien in us : metaphors of transgression in the work of Octavia E. Butler -- Technoscience's stepdaughter : the feminist cyborg in Alien resurrection -- Our bodies as our selves : body, subjectivity, and (virtual) reality in The matrix -- The anatomy of dystopia : female technobodies and the death of desire in Richard Calder's Dead girls -- Beyond binary gender : genderqueer identities and intersexed bodies in Octavia E. Butler's Wild seed and Imago and Melissa Scott's Shadow man.