Worlds Apart?: Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias

by Dunja M. Mohr

Literary critics and scholars have written extensively on the demise of the ""utopian spirit"" in the modern novel. What has often been overlooked is the emergence of a new hybrid subgenre, particularly in science fiction and fantasy, which incorporates utopian strategies within the dystopian narrative, particularly in the feminist dystopias of the 1980s and 1990s. The author names this new subgenre ""transgressive utopian dystopias."" Suzette Haden...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786421428
• ISBN13: 9780786421428
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher