Contemporary Women's Fiction and the Fantastic

By Lucie Armitt

Book Overview

This volume examines a wide variety of the ways in which the fantastic has impacted upon contemporary women's fiction. Some of the issues addressed include: the importance of the cyborg and the spectre to critical and fictional discourses of gender; the interface between the grotesque and contemporary readings of feminist utopianism; the growing similarity between late twentieth-century gothicism and the magical real. The study is based upon the work of fifteen writers and includes novels by Allende, Atwood, Carter, Head, Morrison, Weldon, Winterson and Wittig.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333694538
• ISBN13: 9780333694534
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"