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Cover: 9783031251702 | Women, Science and Fiction Revisited | Debra Benita Shaw | Buch | vii

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Beschreibung

Women, Science and Fiction Revisited is an analysis of selected science fiction novels and short stories written by women over the past hundred years from the point of view of their engagement with how science writes the world. Beginning with Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1918) and ending with N K Jemisin's The City We Became (2020), Debra Benita Shaw explores the re-imagination of gender and race that characterises women's literary crafting of new worlds. Along the way, she introduces new readings of classics like Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, examining the original novels in the context of their adaptation to new media formats in the twenty-first century. What this reveals is a consistent preoccupation with how scientific ideas can be employed to challenge existing social structures and argue for change.

Über den Autor

Debra Benita Shaw is a Reader in Cultural Theory at the University of East London, UK. She is the author of Technoculture: The Key Concepts (2008) and Posthuman Urbanism: Mapping Bodies in Contemporary City Space (2018). She is also co-editor (with Maggie Humm) of Radical Space: Exploring Politics and Practice (2016). She has published extensively in the fields of science fiction, gender politics and urban studies.

Zusammenfassung

Analyzes science fiction novels and short stories written by women over the past hundred years

Explores gender and race in women's literary world-building

Provides new readings of classics by Le Guin and Atwood

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: The Nearly Silent Listener.- 2. Herland: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Literature of the Beehive.- 3. Swastika Night: Katharine Burdekin and the Psychology of Scapegoating.- 4. 'No Woman Born': C. L. Moore's Dancing Cyborg.- 5. The Left Hand of Darkness: Ursula Le Guin and the Haploid Heart.- 6. The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood and the Politics of Choice.- 7. The Power: Naomi Alderman and Archaeologies of Gender.- 8. The City We Became: N. K. Jemisin and Posthuman Urbanism.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	192
Reihe:	Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Inhalt:	vii 181 S.
ISBN-13:	9783031251702
ISBN-10:	3031251709
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Shaw, Debra Benita
Auflage:	2nd ed. 2023
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Maße:	216 x 153 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Debra Benita Shaw
Erscheinungsdatum:	25.03.2023
Gewicht:	0,368 kg

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