ABOUT THIS BOOK

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 ignore.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Marleen Barr is an associate professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She is the author of Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory, editor of Future Females: A Critical Anthology, and coeditor of Discontented Discourses: Feminism/Textual Intervention/ Psychoanalysis.

REVIEWS

"Barr has been a pioneering figure in the study of women's science fiction and speculative fiction. Now she has gone even further and mapped a new genre, 'feminist fabulation.' At once informative and visionary, her book offers a different way of reading contemporary imaginings." -- Catherine R. Stimpson

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments
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
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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