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On strike against God / Joanna Russ ; edited by Alec Pollak.
Van Pelt Library PS3568.U763 O6 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Russ, Joanna, 1937-2011, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lesbians--Fiction.
- Lesbians.
- Feminism--Fiction.
- Feminism.
- Genre:
- novellas.
- Novellas.
- Physical Description:
- 309 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Feminist Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York City : The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2024.
- Summary:
- "A new critical edition of Joanna Russ's 1980 feminist novella On Strike Against God, supplemented with additional materials from Russ's archive. An introduction by Russ scholar Alec Pollak opens the edition, essays by contemporary writers Jeanne Thornton and Mary Anne Mohanraj grapple with Russ's enduring influence on feminist authors today, and an interview with Samuel R. Delany reflects on Delany's decades-long correspondence with Russ"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : I'm not a girl I'm a genius / by Alec Pollak
- On strike against God / by Joanna Russ
- Author's note / by Joanna Russ
- "On lightning, and after lightning" / by Jeanne Thornton
- "Nothing too frightening" / by Mary Anne Mohanraj
- "The other axis : an interview with Samuel R. Delany" / by Alec Pollak
- "What can a heroine do? Or why women can't write" / by Joanna Russ
- "Not for years but for decades" / by Joanna Russ
- Correspondence between Marilyn Hacker and Joanna Russ
- Alternate endings to On strike against God.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781558613140
- 1558613145
- OCLC:
- 1395946625
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