Visions of Doom, Plots of Power: The Fantastic in Anglo-American Women's Literature

Anne Koenen

Published by Vervuert Verlagsgesellschaft 1999

Visions of Doom, Plots of Power: The Fantastic in Anglo-American Women's Literature

Anne Koenen

Volume 10 in the series Leipziger Schriften...

https://doi.org/10.31819/9783964567819

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This study investigates the fantastic as a literary mode in the work of 20th century Anglo-American women writers such as Edith Wharton, Jean Rhys, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Octavia Butler.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The Fantastic As Feminine Mode - Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2. Theories of the Fantastic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3. A History of Fantasy in White Women's Literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
4. The Fantastic in the Literatures of Women of Color Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
5. Ambiguous Dreams - Utopia as a State of Mind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
6. The Past as Nightmare - Dystopia as a State of Body Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
7. Sea-Changes - Metamorphoses as Plots of Power Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
8. Alien(N)ations - Home, Displacement, and Aliens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
9. Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
10. Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321

Language: English
Publisher: Vervuert Verlagsgesellschaft
Audience: College/higher education;
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- Main content: 340

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Published: April 15, 2019
ISBN: 9783964567819