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.
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Marleen S. Barr teaches at Montclair State University and is a visiting scholar at Columbia University. Her many works include Genre Fission and Feminist Fabulation and, as editor, Envisioning the Future and the science fiction issue of the journal PMLA.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
<table of contents, p. v/vii/ix>
Table of Contents
1. Plastic 000
2. The Long Good-bye 000
3. The Spy Who Didn't Love Me 000
4. Slaughterhouse One 000
5. The Ultimatum Or, Springtime for Hundschort 000
6. Garbage 000
7. Chickens 000
8. Into the Woods 000
9. Heat 000
10. Surprise! Disguise 000
11. Surprise, Reprise 000
12. The Land of Milk and Honey-and More 000
13. More 000
14. Someone Is Sleeping In My Bed 000
15. Chicken Redux 000
16. Ejection Seat 000
17. La (Un)dolce Vita 000
18. Coming Out of the Closet 000
19. Sexual Harassment 000
20. Big Mouthed Big Foot Escapes 000
21. Welcome to the Hotel California 000
22. I Don't Want to Suck Your Blood 000
23. Back to the Salt Mine 000
24. How the West Was Lost 000
25. The Homecoming 000
26. A Course Taught By a Horse? Of Course, Of Course 000
27. Blackhole(a), Blackhole(a) 000
28. New York is Where I'd Rather Stay; I Get Allergic Smelling Hay Or, Escape From the Planet of the Goyim 000
29. Murder in the Apartment (Not in the English Department) Or, 'H' Is for Homicide 000
30. Fear of Flying Or, The Return of the Native 000
31. The Dating Game 000
32. The Tsaurisaurus 000
33. Smile You're Not on Candid Camera Or, The Empire Strikes Back 000
34. The Sounds of Silence 000
35. Murder in the English Department 000
36. Episode II-Attack of the Clones: Don't Bet on the Prince? Or, Look Who's Talking 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: English teachers Fiction, New York (N, Y, ) Fiction, Women teachers Fiction, Jewish women Fiction, Virginia Fiction
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University of Wisconsin Press, 2003 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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Marleen S. Barr teaches at Montclair State University and is a visiting scholar at Columbia University. Her many works include Genre Fission and Feminist Fabulation and, as editor, Envisioning the Future and the science fiction issue of the journal PMLA.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
<table of contents, p. v/vii/ix>
Table of Contents
1. Plastic 000
2. The Long Good-bye 000
3. The Spy Who Didn't Love Me 000
4. Slaughterhouse One 000
5. The Ultimatum Or, Springtime for Hundschort 000
6. Garbage 000
7. Chickens 000
8. Into the Woods 000
9. Heat 000
10. Surprise! Disguise 000
11. Surprise, Reprise 000
12. The Land of Milk and Honey-and More 000
13. More 000
14. Someone Is Sleeping In My Bed 000
15. Chicken Redux 000
16. Ejection Seat 000
17. La (Un)dolce Vita 000
18. Coming Out of the Closet 000
19. Sexual Harassment 000
20. Big Mouthed Big Foot Escapes 000
21. Welcome to the Hotel California 000
22. I Don't Want to Suck Your Blood 000
23. Back to the Salt Mine 000
24. How the West Was Lost 000
25. The Homecoming 000
26. A Course Taught By a Horse? Of Course, Of Course 000
27. Blackhole(a), Blackhole(a) 000
28. New York is Where I'd Rather Stay; I Get Allergic Smelling Hay Or, Escape From the Planet of the Goyim 000
29. Murder in the Apartment (Not in the English Department) Or, 'H' Is for Homicide 000
30. Fear of Flying Or, The Return of the Native 000
31. The Dating Game 000
32. The Tsaurisaurus 000
33. Smile You're Not on Candid Camera Or, The Empire Strikes Back 000
34. The Sounds of Silence 000
35. Murder in the English Department 000
36. Episode II-Attack of the Clones: Don't Bet on the Prince? Or, Look Who's Talking 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: English teachers Fiction, New York (N, Y, ) Fiction, Women teachers Fiction, Jewish women Fiction, Virginia Fiction
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