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Contemporary Women’s Fiction and the Fantastic
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This volume examines a wide variety of the ways in which the fantastic has impacted upon contemporary women's fiction. Some of the issues addressed include: the importance of the cyborg and the spectre to critical and fictional discourses of gender; the interface between the grotesque and contemporary readings of feminist utopianism; the growing similarity between late twentieth-century gothicism and the magical real. The study is based upon the work of fifteen writers and includes novels by Allende, Atwood, Carter, Head, Morrison, Weldon, Winterson and Wittig.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright Permissions
- Introduction
- Literary Antecedents
- Contemporary Phantoms and Other Monsters
- Echoes and Exorcisms: Nineteenth-Century Reflections
- Dora Meets Scheherazade
- 1 The Grotesque Utopia: Joanna Russ, Jeanette Winterson, Angela Carter, Jane Palmer and Monique Wittig
- 2 Chronotopes and Cyborgs: Octavia Butler, Joanna Russ, Fay Weldon and Marge Piercy
- 3 Vampires and the Unconscious: Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison and Bessie Head
- 4 Ghosts and (Narrative) Ghosting: Margaret Atwood, Jeanette Winterson and Toni Morrison
- 5 Fairies and Feminism: Alice Thomas Ellis, Fay Weldon and Elizabeth Baines
- 6 Magic Realism Meets the Contemporary Gothic: Isabel Allende and Angela Carter
- 7 Mannequins in the Marketplace: Angela Carter, Pat Barker and Margaret Atwood
- Conclusion: The Lost Mother
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index