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Lost in Space

Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond

By: Marleen S. Barr

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Lost in Space

Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond

By: Marleen S. Barr

Archaeologists and anthropologists discover other civilizations; science fiction writers invent them. In this collection of her major essays, Marleen Barr argues that feminist science fiction writers contribute to postmodern literary canons with radical alternatives to mainstream patriarchal society. Because feminist science fiction challenges male-centered social imperatives, it has been marginalized and dismissed from the canon--thus, lost in space. Moving beyond feminist science fiction itself, Barr goes on to examine other literary genres from the perspective of 'feminist fabulation'--a term she has coined to encompass science fiction, fantasy, utopian literature, and mainstream literature that critiques patriarchal fictions. Discussing the works of such writers as Margaret Atwood, Joanna Russ, Salman Rushdie, Paul Theroux, Ursula Le Guin, Herman Melville, Saul Bellow, Edgar Allan Poe, and Marge Piercy, Barr illuminates feminist science fiction's connections to other literary traditions and contemporary canons. Her critical analysis yields a new and expanded understanding of feminist creativity.

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UNC Press Books

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1469639769

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9781469639765

Reading Science Fiction

By: James Gunn,Marleen Barr,Matthew Candelaria

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Reading Science Fiction

By: James Gunn,Marleen Barr,Matthew Candelaria

Science Fiction is illuminated by world class scholars and fiction writers, who introduce the history, concepts and contexts necessary to understanding the genre. Their groundbreaking approach provides insights into today's SF world and makes learning how to read Science Fiction an exciting collaborative process for teachers and students.

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256

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137078987

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9781137078988

Genre Fission

A New Discourse Practice for Culture Studies

By: Marleen S. Barr

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Genre Fission

A New Discourse Practice for Culture Studies

By: Marleen S. Barr

What do Amsterdam prostitutes, NASA astronauts, cross-dressing texts, and Star Trek characters have in common? In Genre Fission, Marleen Barr wittily and eccentrically revitalizes cultural and literary theory by examining the points where such vastly different categories meet, converge, and reemerge as something new.

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University of Iowa Press

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1587292718

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9781587292712

Oy Pioneer!

A Novel

By: Marleen S. Barr

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Oy Pioneer!

A Novel

By: Marleen S. Barr

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.

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Terrace Books

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0299189139

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Lost in Space

Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond

By: Marleen S. Barr

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Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond

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Genre Fission

A New Discourse Practice for Culture Studies

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Oy Pioneer!

A Novel

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A Novel

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