TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lacey,Lauren J.
AU  - Palumbo,Donald E.
AU  - Sullivan,C.W.
TI  - The Past That Might Have Been, the Future That May Come: Women Writing Fantastic Fiction, 1960s to the Present
T2  - Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
SN  - 9781476614304
AV  - PN3433 .P378 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Jefferson
PB  - McFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Fantasy literature
KW  - Femininity (Philosophy) in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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