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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820501803321

Autore

Burwell Jennifer

Titolo

Notes on nowhere : feminism, utopian logic, and social transformation / / Jennifer Burwell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press, c1997

ISBN

0-8166-8663-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Collana

American culture ; ; v. 13

Disciplina

813/.5409372

Soggetti

American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Utopias in literature

Feminism and literature - United States - History - 20th century

Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century

Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Feminist fiction, American - History and criticism

Social problems in literature

Logic in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-234) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Locational Hazards: The Utopian Impulse and the Logic of Social Transformation; 2. Turning Inward: Strategies of Containment and Subjective/Collective Boundaries in Traditional Utopian Literature; 3. Speaking Parts: Internal Dialogic and Models of Agency in the Work of Joanna Russ and Octavia Butler; 4. Utopia and Technopolitics in Woman on the Edge of Time; 5. Acting Out ""Lesbian"": Monique Wittig and Immanent Critique; Conclusion. Moveable Locales: Narrating Unsutured Utopia; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The term utopia implies both "good place" and "nowhere." Since Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia in 1516, debates about utopian models of society have sought to understand the implications of these somewhat contradictory definitions. In Notes on Nowhere, author Jennifer Burwell uses a cross-section of contemporary feminist science fiction to



examine the political and literary meaning of utopian writing and utopian thought. Burwell provides close readings of the science fiction novels of five feminist writers-Marge Piercy, Sally Gearhart, Joanna Russ, Octavia Butler, and Monique Wittig-and poses que