Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s: Joanna Russ and Dorothy Bryant

ISBN-13: 9780415967877 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 214 str.

Tatiana Teslenko;Teslenko Tatian

Opis

This text presents an exploration of the reinvented Utopia that provided second-wave feminists of the 1970s with a conceptual space to articulate the politics of change. Tatiana Teslenko argues that Utopian fiction of this decade offered a means of validating the personal as the political, and of criticizing the patriarchical social order. In her examination of two novels of the 70s - Dorothy Bryant's The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You and Joanna Russ's The Female Man - Teslenko provides a comprehensive account of the generic strategy of feminist Utopian fiction. women while working with the linguistic and generic tools of patriarchy. These fictions attempt to transgress social codes, to re-figure patriarchal tropes and to explode genre-setting rules through the use of fragmentation, ambiguity, multiplicity and openness. This book demonstrates feminists' attempt through fiction to envision a new political order. Teslenko takes a thorough look at a reworked good place that is no place that elaborates a site of gendered opposition.

O autorze

Tatiana Teslenko teaches at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her research interests are genre studies, feminist criticism, cultural theory, and utopian studies. Most recently, she co-edited The Rhetoric and Ideology of Genre, in which she published a chapter entitled "Ideology and Genre: Heteroglossia of Soviet Genre Theories."