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.
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.
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Atwood, Margaret, -- 1939-. Lessing, Doris, -- 1919-2013. English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Utopias in literature. Fiction -- Women authors. Women and literature.