Contemporary Women’s Fiction and the Fantastic

Armitt, L.

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.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2000-07-14

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780312226664

DOI: 10.1057/9780230598997

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 257