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UNINA9910452530203321 |
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Wagner-Lawlor Jennifer A. |
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Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions / / Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor, The Pennsylvania State University [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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1-107-24185-5 |
1-139-89184-7 |
1-107-25135-4 |
1-107-24886-8 |
1-139-81481-8 |
1-107-25052-8 |
1-107-24803-5 |
1-107-24969-4 |
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1 online resource (xvii, 230 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Utopias in literature |
Feminism and literature |
Speculative fiction - Women authors - History and criticism |
Postmodernism (Literature) |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Introduction: Portals of possibility: speculative standpoint and feminist intervention -- Learning the way of the world, and beyond: utopian imperatives and the female bildungsroman -- "With no guarantees, of course": the art of the possible -- Archives of the heart: inventing history at the edge(s) of time -- Always coming home, in America: enacting the romance of community -- Looking East for news from nowhere: feminist mobility in Muslim women's speculative writing -- Conclusion: Being at home somewhere. |
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This study examines feminist speculative fiction from the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, and finds within it a new vision for the future. Rejecting notions of postmodern utopia as exclusionary, Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor advances one defined in terms of hospitality, |
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casting what she calls 'imaginative sympathy' as the foundation of utopian desire. Tracing these themes through the works of Atwood, Butler, Lessing and Winterson, as well as those of well-known Muslim feminists such as El Saadawi, Parsipur and Mernissi, Wagner-Lawlor balances literary analysis with innovative extensions of feminist philosophy to show how inclusionary utopian thinking can inform and promote political agency. Examining these contemporary fictions reveals the rewards of attending to a community that acknowledges difference, diversity and the imaginative potential of every human being. |
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UNINA9910132073903321 |
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Autore |
Spencer Herbert |
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Autobiographie : naissance de l'évolutionisme libéral / / Herbert Spencer |
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Chicoutimi : , : J.-M. Tremblay, , 2002 |
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1 online resource (154 pages) |
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Classiques des sciences sociales |
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La table des matières du livre -- Avant-propos, de Henry de Varigny, 1907, traducteur. |
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UNINA990004882010403321 |
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Valdman, Albert |
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Trends in language teaching / edited by Albert Valdman |
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New York, : McGraw-Hill Book, c1966 |
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XXII, 298 p. : ill. ; 23 cm |
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