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Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions / / Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor, The Pennsylvania State University [[electronic resource]]



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Autore: Wagner-Lawlor Jennifer A. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions / / Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor, The Pennsylvania State University [[electronic resource]] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 230 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 809/.93372
Soggetto topico: Utopias in literature
Feminism and literature
Speculative fiction - Women authors - History and criticism
Postmodernism (Literature)
Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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, 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.
Altri titoli varianti: Postmodern Utopias & Feminist Fictions
Titolo autorizzato: Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 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
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910779991203321
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