Lacey, Lauren J. <br/><br/>
The Past That Might Have Been, the Future That May Come  Women Writing Fantastic Fiction, 1960s to the Present. 

 - Jefferson :  McFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers,  (c)2014. 
 - 1 online resource (209 pages) 
 - Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy ;  v.43 .
<br/><br/> Description based upon print version of record. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Cover; 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 
<br/><br/> 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"" i. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781476614304 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Science fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.<br/>Fantasy literature--Women authors--History and criticism.<br/>Femininity (Philosophy) in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN3433  / .P378 2014