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This Study Examines Feminist Speculative Fiction From The Late Twentieth- And Early Twenty-first Century, And Finds Within It A New Vision For The Future. Rejecting Notions Of Postmodern Utopia As Exclusionary, Jennifer A. Wagner-lawlor Advances One Defined In Terms Of Hospitality, Casting What She Calls Imaginative Sympathy As The Foundation Of Utopian Desire. Tracing These Themes Through The Works Of Atwood, Butler, Lessing, And Winterson, As Well As Those Of Well-known Muslim Feminists Such As El Saadawi, Parsipur, And Mernissi, Wagner-lawlor Balances Literary Analysis With Innovative Extensions Of Feminist Philosophy To Show How Inclusionary Utopian Thinking Can Inform And Promote Political Agency. Examining These Contemporary Fictions Reveals The Rewards Of Attending To A Community That Acknowledges Difference, Diversity, And The Imaginative Potential Of Every Human Being -- Introduction: Speculative Standpoint And Feminist Intervention -- Learning The Way Of The World, And Beyond: Utopian Imperatives And The Female Bildungsroman -- With No Guarantees, Of Course: The Art Of The Possible -- Archives Of The Heart: Inventing History At The Edge(s) Of Time -- Always Coming Home, I

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Author

Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781107038356

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, History