Visions of Doom, Plots of Power: The Fantastic in Anglo-American Women's Literature /
Koenen, Anne
Visions of Doom, Plots of Power: The Fantastic in Anglo-American Women's Literature / Anne Koenen. - 1 online resource (340 p.) - Leipziger Schriften. ; 10 .
Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. The Fantastic As Feminine Mode - Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea -- 2. Theories of the Fantastic -- 3. A History of Fantasy in White Women's Literature -- 4. The Fantastic in the Literatures of Women of Color -- 5. Ambiguous Dreams - Utopia as a State of Mind -- 6. The Past as Nightmare - Dystopia as a State of Body -- 7. Sea-Changes - Metamorphoses as Plots of Power -- 8. Alien(N)ations - Home, Displacement, and Aliens -- 9. Conclusion -- 10. Bibliography
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783893542703 9783964567819
10.31819/9783964567819 doi
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
Visions of Doom, Plots of Power: The Fantastic in Anglo-American Women's Literature / Anne Koenen. - 1 online resource (340 p.) - Leipziger Schriften. ; 10 .
Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. The Fantastic As Feminine Mode - Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea -- 2. Theories of the Fantastic -- 3. A History of Fantasy in White Women's Literature -- 4. The Fantastic in the Literatures of Women of Color -- 5. Ambiguous Dreams - Utopia as a State of Mind -- 6. The Past as Nightmare - Dystopia as a State of Body -- 7. Sea-Changes - Metamorphoses as Plots of Power -- 8. Alien(N)ations - Home, Displacement, and Aliens -- 9. Conclusion -- 10. Bibliography
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783893542703 9783964567819
10.31819/9783964567819 doi
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.