Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s: Joanna Russ and Dorothy Bryant

by Tatiana Teslenko

Overview

This book presents an exploration of the reinvented utopia that provided second-wave feminists of the 1970s with a conceptual space to articulate the politics of change. Tatiana Teslenko argues that utopian fiction of this decade offered a means of validating the personal as well as the political, and of criticizing a patriarchal social order. Teslenko reveals feminists' attempt through fiction to envision a new political order.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415967877
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/19/2003
Series:	Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1360L (what's this?)

About the Author

Tatiana Teslenko teaches at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her research interests are genre studies, feminist criticism, cultural theory, and utopian studies. Most recently, she co-edited The Rhetoric and Ideology of Genre, in which she published a chapter entitled "Ideology and Genre: Heteroglossia of Soviet Genre Theories."

Table of Contents

CONTENTS:List of TablesPrefaceIntroductionRhetoric of IdentificationNew Rhetoric of GenreChapter 1: Utopia and UtopianismUtopia and IdeologyUtopia as Literary GenreChapter 2: Utopianism and FeminismScraping False DichotomiesGenre TransformationChapter 3: Dorothy Bryant: Saving the Human RaceThe Real WorldUtopian ChronotopeUtopian PeopleDream-time: Fluid Meaning and Rigid WordThe Law of LightChapter 4: Joanna Russ: New Meaning for Old ConceptsCalculated AmbiguityJanet the SaviorJeannine: Cognitive StarvationJael: Terror of TerrorismJoanna: Usurp the DeniedIdentification RevisitedConclusion: Utopian Genre as Feminist StrategyGlossaryBibliography