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Contemporary Women’s Fiction and the Fantastic

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  • © 2000

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  1. Lucie Armitt

    1. University of Wales, Bangor, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Lucie Armitt
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Grotesque Utopia: Joanna Russ, Jeanette Winterson, Angela Carter, Jane Palmer and Monique Wittig

    • Lucie Armitt
    Pages 15-38

  4. Chronotopes and Cyborgs: Octavia Butler, Joanna Russ, Fay Weldon and Marge Piercy

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    Pages 39-65

  5. Vampires and the Unconscious: Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison and Bessie Head

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    Pages 66-101

  6. Ghosts and (Narrative) Ghosting: Margaret Atwood, Jeanette Winterson and Toni Morrison

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    Pages 102-129

  7. Fairies and Feminism: Alice Thomas Ellis, Fay Weldon and Elizabeth Baines

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    Pages 130-159

  8. Magic Realism Meets the Contemporary Gothic: Isabel Allende and Angela Carter

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    Pages 160-190

  9. Mannequins in the Marketplace: Angela Carter, Pat Barker and Margaret Atwood

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    Pages 191-219

  10. Conclusion: The Lost Mother

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    Pages 220-223

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 224-257
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Wales, Bangor, UK

    Lucie Armitt

About the author

LUCIE ARMITT is Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Bangor. Her previous publications include Theorising the Fantastic and Where No Man Has Gone Before: Women and Science Fiction. Her main areas of research interest at present include the nineteenth and twentieth-century ghost story, contemporary magic realism, and, most recently, George Eliot.

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