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Oy Pioneer!: A Novel
University of Wisconsin Press, 2003 Cloth: 978-0-299-18910-5 | eISBN: 978-0-299-18913-6 Library of Congress Classification PS3602.A836O9 2003 Dewey Decimal Classification 813.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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. See other books on: English teachers | Jewish women | New York (N.Y.) | Virginia | Women teachers See other titles from University of Wisconsin Press |
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Oy Pioneer!: A Novel
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University of Wisconsin Press, 2003
Cloth: 978-0-299-18910-5
eISBN: 978-0-299-18913-6
Cloth: 978-0-299-18910-5
eISBN: 978-0-299-18913-6
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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