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050 0 4 _aPN3433
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100 1 _aLacey, Lauren J.
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245 1 0 _aThe Past That Might Have Been, the Future That May Come
_bWomen Writing Fantastic Fiction, 1960s to the Present.
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260 _aJefferson :
_bMcFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers,
_c(c)2014.
300 _a1 online resource (209 pages)
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490 1 _aCritical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy ;
_vv.43
500 _aDescription based upon print version of record.
505 0 0 _aCover; 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
520 0 _aThis 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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650 0 _aScience fiction
_xWomen authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aFantasy literature
_xWomen authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aFemininity (Philosophy) in literature.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
700 1 _aPalumbo, Donald E.
700 1 _aSullivan, C.W.
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell