Contemporary Women's Fiction and the Fantastic

L. Armitt

• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Año: 2000
• ISBN:
  9780230598997
• Categoría: Literatura
• Categoría: Crítica literaria moderna

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.