The Past That Might Have Been, the Future That May Come: Women Writing Fantastic Fiction, 1960s to the Present
Author:   Lauren J. Lacey ,  Donald E. Palumbo ,  C.W. Sullivan III
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Volume:   Nr. 43
ISBN:  

9780786478262


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   19 December 2013
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Paperback
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The Past That Might Have Been, the Future That May Come: Women Writing Fantastic Fiction, 1960s to the Present


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This book explores how contemporary fantastic fiction by women writers responds to the past and imagines the future. The first two chapters look at revisionist rewritings of fairy tales and historical texts; the third and fourth focus on future-oriented narratives including dystopias and space fiction. Writers considered include Margaret Atwood, Octavia E. Butler, Angela Carter, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing, and Jeanette Winterson, among others. The author argues that an analysis of how past and future are understood in women's fantastic fictions brings to light an ""ethics of becoming"" in the texts--a way of interrupting, revising and remaking problematic power structures that are tied to identity markers like class, gender and race. The book reveals how fantastic fiction can be read as narratives of disruption that enable the creation of an ethics of becoming.

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Author:   Lauren J. Lacey ,  Donald E. Palumbo ,  C.W. Sullivan III
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Volume:   Nr. 43
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.290kg
ISBN:  

9780786478262


ISBN 10:   0786478268
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   19 December 2013
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Fantastic Interventions One. Beastly Beauty and Other Revisioned Fairy Tales Two. Tampering with Time in Historical Narratives Three. Working Through the Wreckage in Dystopian Fiction Four. Becoming-Alien in Feminist Space Fiction Conclusion: Becoming Powerful Chapter Notes Works Cited Index

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Lauren J. Lacey is an associate professor of English at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin.

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