Notes on nowhere [[electronic resource] ] : feminism, utopian logic, and social transformation / / Jennifer Burwell

• Autore: Burwell Jennifer
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press, c1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.5409372
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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
• Altri titoli varianti: Feminism, utopian logic, and social transformation
• Titolo autorizzato: Notes on nowhere
• ISBN: 0-8166-8663-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784371303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American culture (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; ; 13.