Women's utopian and dystopian fiction / edited by Sharon R. Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilson, Sharon R., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Utopias in literature.

Fiction--Women authors.

Fiction.

Women and literature.

Atwood, Margaret, 1939-.

Atwood, Margaret.

Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013.

Lessing, Doris.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Women’s Utopian and Dystopian Fiction explores the genres of utopian and dystopian recent fiction. It is about how this literature of both imagined perfection and disaster creates new worlds and critiques gender roles, traditions, and values. Essays range in subject matter from Charlotte Perkins Gilman, P. D. James, Joanna Russ, and Marge Piercy, to Ursula Le Guin, Fay Weldon, and Toni Morrison. Two of the three sections focus on Doris Lessing and Margaret Atwood. Examining especially the twe.

Contents:

Intro

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

I DORIS LESSING

AN OPENING IN THE WALL

STORYTELLING IN LESSING'SMARA AND DANN AND OTHER TEXTS

THE EXEGESIS OF DORIS LESSING'STHE CLEFT

II OTHER AMERICAN AND ENGLISH FICTION

THE HAND THAT CRADLES THE ROCK

FAYWELDON'S THE CLONING OF JOANNA MAYAS A FEMINIST DYSTOPIAN BURLESQUE

POWER, SURVEILLANCE AND REPRODUCTIVETECHNOLOGY IN P.D. JAMES'THE CHILDREN OF MEN

INCLUSION AND EXCLUSIONIN SOME FEMINIST UTOPIAN FICTIONS

GENDERED TRAVEL AND QUIESCENCEIN TONIMORRISON'S PARADISE

III MARGARET ATWOOD

BREAKING THE CIRCLE OF DYSTOPIA

LAYERS OF TIME

SCREENMEMORIES

CONTRIBUTORS

FURTHER READING

INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 23, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6443-9

OCLC:

885122916