03929nam 2200793 a 450 991045736540332120200520144314.00-8166-8663-7(CKB)1000000000347102(EBL)310387(OCoLC)476094257(SSID)ssj0000212424(PQKBManifestationID)11174878(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000212424(PQKBWorkID)10138182(PQKB)11040246(MiAaPQ)EBC310387(OCoLC)85858136(MdBmJHUP)muse39575(Au-PeEL)EBL310387(CaPaEBR)ebr10159372(CaONFJC)MIL523450(EXLCZ)99100000000034710219960626d1997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNotes on nowhere[electronic resource] feminism, utopian logic, and social transformation /Jennifer BurwellMinneapolis, Minn. University of Minnesota Pressc19971 online resource (260 p.)American culture ;v. 13Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-2639-1 0-8166-2638-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-234) and index.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; IndexThe 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 queAmerican culture (Minneapolis, Minn.) ;13.Feminism, utopian logic, and social transformationAmerican fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismUtopias in literatureFeminism and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWomen and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismFeminist fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismSocial problems in literatureLogic in literatureElectronic books.American fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Utopias in literature.Feminism and literatureHistoryLiterature and societyHistoryWomen and literatureHistoryAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Feminist fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism.Social problems in literature.Logic in literature.813/.5409372Burwell Jennifer896830MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457365403321Notes on nowhere2189279UNINA