Oy Pioneer!: A Novel

by Marleen S. Barr

Overview

What would happen if a feminist Jewish wit and scholar invaded David Lodge’s territory? Marleen S. Barr, herself a pioneer in the feminist criticism of science fiction, provides a giddily entertaining answer in this feisty novel. Oy Pioneer! follows professor Sondra Lear as she makes her inimitable way through a world of learning—at times fantastic, at times all too familiar, often hilarious, and always compulsively interesting.
    As if Mel Brooks and Erica Jong had joined forces to recreate Sex and the City for the intellectual set, the story is a heady mix of Jewish humor, feminist insight, and academic satire. Lear is a tenured radical and a wildly ambitious intellectual, but is subject nonetheless to the husband-hunting imperatives of her Jewish mother. Her adventures expand narrative parameters according to Barr’s term "genre fission."
    Mixing elements of science fiction, fantasy, ethnic comedy, satire, and authentic experience of academic life, Oy Pioneer! is uncommonly fun—a Jewish feminist scholar’s imaginative text boldly going where no academic satire has gone before—and bringing readers along for an exhilarating ride.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299189136
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	11/15/2003
Series:	Library of American Fiction
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Marleen S. Barr teaches at Montclair State University and is a visiting scholar at Columbia University. Her many works include Genre Fission and Feminist Fabulation and, as editor, Envisioning the Future and the science fiction issue of the journal PMLA.

Table of Contents

<table of contents, p. v/vii/ix> Table of Contents 1. Plastic 000 2. The Long Good-bye 000 3. The Spy Who Didn't Love Me 000 4. Slaughterhouse One 000 5. The Ultimatum Or, Springtime for Hundschort 000 6. Garbage 000 7. Chickens 000 8. Into the Woods 000 9. Heat 000 10. Surprise! Disguise 000 11. Surprise, Reprise 000 12. The Land of Milk and Honey-and More 000 13. More 000 14. Someone Is Sleeping In My Bed 000 15. Chicken Redux 000 16. Ejection Seat 000 17. La (Un)dolce Vita 000 18. Coming Out of the Closet 000 19. Sexual Harassment 000 20. Big Mouthed Big Foot Escapes 000 21. Welcome to the Hotel California 000 22. I Don't Want to Suck Your Blood 000 23. Back to the Salt Mine 000 24. How the West Was Lost 000 25. The Homecoming 000 26. A Course Taught By a Horse? Of Course, Of Course 000 27. Blackhole(a), Blackhole(a) 000 28. New York is Where I'd Rather Stay; I Get Allergic Smelling Hay Or, Escape From the Planet of the Goyim 000 29. Murder in the Apartment (Not in the English Department) Or, 'H' Is for Homicide 000 30. Fear of Flying Or, The Return of the Native 000 31. The Dating Game 000 32. The Tsaurisaurus 000 33. Smile You're Not on Candid Camera Or, The Empire Strikes Back 000 34. The Sounds of Silence 000 35. Murder in the English Department 000 36. Episode II-Attack of the Clones: Don't Bet on the Prince? Or, Look Who's Talking 000

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: English teachers Fiction, New York (N, Y, ) Fiction, Women teachers Fiction, Jewish women Fiction, Virginia Fiction