Contemporary Women’s Fiction and the Fantastic

Name: Contemporary Women’s Fiction and the Fantastic
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan UK
SKU: 9780312226664
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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.