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- catalog abstract "The surprising and controversial thesis of Feminist Fabulation is unflinching: the postmodern canon has systematically excluded a wide range of important women's writing by dismissing it as genre fiction. Marleen Barr issues an urgent call for a corrective, for the recognition of a new meta- or supergenre of contemporary writing - feminist fabulation - which includes both acclaimed mainstream works and works which today's critics consistently denigrate or ignore. In its investigation of the relationship between women writers and postmodern fiction in terms of outer space and canonical space, Feminist Fabulation is a pioneer vehicle built to explore postmodernism in terms of female literary spaces which have something to do with real-world women. Branding the postmodern canon as a masculinist utopia and a nowhere for feminists, Barr offers the stunning argument that feminist science fiction is not science fiction at all but is really metafiction about patriarchal fiction. Barr's concern is directed every bit as much toward contemporary feminist critics as it is toward patriarchy. Rather than trying to reclaim lost feminist writers of the past, she suggests, feminist criticism should concentrate on reclaiming the present's lost fabulative feminist writers, writers steeped in nonpatriarchal definitions of reality who can guide us into another order of world altogether. Barr offers very specific plans for new structures that will benefit women, feminist theory, postmodern theory, and science fiction theory alike. Feminist fabulation calls for a new understanding which enables the canon to accommodate feminist difference and emphasizes that the literature called "feminist SF" is an important site of postmodern feminist difference. Barr forces the reader to rethink the whole country club of postmodernism, not just its membership list - and in so doing provides a discourse of this century worthy of a prominent reading by all scholars, feminists, writers, and literary theorists and critics.".
- catalog contributor b3931603.
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "Barr offers very specific plans for new structures that will benefit women, feminist theory, postmodern theory, and science fiction theory alike. Feminist fabulation calls for a new understanding which enables the canon to accommodate feminist difference and emphasizes that the literature called "feminist SF" is an important site of postmodern feminist difference. Barr forces the reader to rethink the whole country club of postmodernism, not just its membership list - and in so doing provides a discourse of this century worthy of a prominent reading by all scholars, feminists, writers, and literary theorists and critics.".
- catalog description "Branding the postmodern canon as a masculinist utopia and a nowhere for feminists, Barr offers the stunning argument that feminist science fiction is not science fiction at all but is really metafiction about patriarchal fiction. Barr's concern is directed every bit as much toward contemporary feminist critics as it is toward patriarchy. Rather than trying to reclaim lost feminist writers of the past, she suggests, feminist criticism should concentrate on reclaiming the present's lost fabulative feminist writers, writers steeped in nonpatriarchal definitions of reality who can guide us into another order of world altogether.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-303) and index.".
- catalog description "Preface: Having "Nunavit" -- I. Reclaiming Canonical Space. 1. The Feminist Anglo-American Critical Empire Strikes Back. 2. Canonizing the Monstrous -- II. Redefining Gendered Space. 3. "A Dream of Flying" 4. Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? 5. All You Need Is Love? -- III. Reconceiving Narrative Space. 6. Hesitation, Self-Experiment, Transformation -- Women Mastering Female Narrative. 7. Gender and the Literature of Exhaustion. Afterword: Back to the Future.".
- catalog description "The surprising and controversial thesis of Feminist Fabulation is unflinching: the postmodern canon has systematically excluded a wide range of important women's writing by dismissing it as genre fiction. Marleen Barr issues an urgent call for a corrective, for the recognition of a new meta- or supergenre of contemporary writing - feminist fabulation - which includes both acclaimed mainstream works and works which today's critics consistently denigrate or ignore. In its investigation of the relationship between women writers and postmodern fiction in terms of outer space and canonical space, Feminist Fabulation is a pioneer vehicle built to explore postmodernism in terms of female literary spaces which have something to do with real-world women.".
- catalog extent "xxix, 312 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Feminist fabulation.".
- catalog identifier "0877453764 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0877453772 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Feminist fabulation.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,".
- catalog relation "Feminist fabulation.".
- catalog subject "809.3/0082 20".
- catalog subject "813/.509/082 20".
- catalog subject "Canon (Literature)".
- catalog subject "Fantasy fiction Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Feminism and literature.".
- catalog subject "Feminism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Feminist fiction History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Fiction Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PN3401 .B38 1992".
- catalog subject "Postmodernism (Literature)".
- catalog subject "Science fiction Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Space and time in literature.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface: Having "Nunavit" -- I. Reclaiming Canonical Space. 1. The Feminist Anglo-American Critical Empire Strikes Back. 2. Canonizing the Monstrous -- II. Redefining Gendered Space. 3. "A Dream of Flying" 4. Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? 5. All You Need Is Love? -- III. Reconceiving Narrative Space. 6. Hesitation, Self-Experiment, Transformation -- Women Mastering Female Narrative. 7. Gender and the Literature of Exhaustion. Afterword: Back to the Future.".
- catalog title "Feminist fabulation : space/postmodern fiction / by Marleen S. Barr.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".