TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilson,Sharon R.
TI  - Women's Utopian and Dystopian Fiction
SN  - 9781443864435
AV  - PR888.W6 -- W66 2013eb 
U1  - 809.38762 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Newcastle-upon-Tyne
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - Atwood, Margaret, -- 1939-
KW  - Lessing, Doris, -- 1919-2013
KW  - English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
KW  - Utopias in literature
KW  - Fiction -- Women authors
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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