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This study examines feminist speculative fiction from the late twentieth and early twenty-first century and finds within it a new vision for the future. Rejecting notions of postmodern utopia as exclusionary Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor advances one defined in terms of hospitality casting what she calls imaginative sympathy as the foundation of utopian desire. Tracing these themes through the works of Atwood Butler Lessing and Winterson as well as those of well-known Muslim feminists such as El Saadawi Parsipur and Mernissi Wagner-Lawlor balances literary analysis with innovative extensions of feminist philosophy to show how inclusionary utopian thinking can inform and promote political agency. Examining these contemporary fictions reveals the rewards of attending to a community that acknowledges difference diversity and the imaginative potential of every human being.
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This study examines feminist speculative fiction from the late twentieth and early twenty-first century and finds within it a new vision for the future. Rejecting notions of postmodern utopia as exclusionary Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor advances one defined in terms of hospitality casting what she calls imaginative sympathy as the foundation of utopian desire. Tracing these themes through the works of Atwood Butler Lessing and Winterson as well as those of well-known Muslim feminists such as El Saadawi Parsipur and Mernissi Wagner-Lawlor balances literary analysis with innovative extensions of feminist philosophy to show how inclusionary utopian thinking can inform and promote political agency. Examining these contemporary fictions reveals the rewards of attending to a community that acknowledges difference diversity and the imaginative potential of every human being.
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What is Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions about?
This study examines feminist speculative fiction from the late twentieth and early twenty-first century and finds within it a new vision for the future. Rejecting notions of postmodern utopia as exclusionary Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor advances one defined in terms of hospitality casting what she calls imaginative sympathy as the foundation of utopian desire. Tracing these themes through the works of Atwood Butler Lessing and Winterson as well as those of well-known Muslim feminists such as El Saadawi Parsipur and Mernissi Wagner-Lawlor balances literary analysis with innovative extensions of feminist philosophy to show how inclusionary utopian thinking can inform and promote political agency. Examining these contemporary fictions reveals the rewards of attending to a community that acknowledges difference diversity and the imaginative potential of every human being.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions?
Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Literature: history and criticism > Literary studies: general > Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions?
Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor
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Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781107038356)