 | Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction Subjects: Fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Science fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Fantastic fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Postmodernism (Literature); Canon; 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. 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. |
