"Geschichte 1965-1996" . . "Geschichte 1965-1996." . "Femmes écrivains 20e siècle Histoire et critique." . . "Mujeres escritoras s.20 Historia y crítica." . . "Geschichte 1970-1996" . . "Geschichte 1970-1996." . "Phantastischer Roman." . . "Armitt, Lucie" . . "kønsrolle" . . "20th century." . . "Bellettrie." . . "Schriftstellerin." . . "Vrouwen." . . "Fantastique (littérature) Femmes écrivains Histoire et critique." . . "Letteratura fantastica - Autrici - Storia e criticismo." . . "Roman 20e siècle Histoire et critique." . . "<<Das>> Phantastische Frauenroman Geschichte 1967-1996." . . "Women and literature." . . . . "Roman anglophone 20e siècle Histoire et critique." . . "History and criticism." . . "Femmes et littérature Pays de langue anglaise 20e siècle." . . "Dones i literatura Història S. XX." . . "1900 - 1999" . . "Écrits de femmes Histoire et critique." . . "Novel·la fantàstica Escriptores Història i crítica." . . "Fantastique (littérature) 20e siècle Histoire et critique." . . "Femmes et littérature Histoire 20e siècle." . . "USA." . . "Letteratura fantastica - Sec.20." . . "Donna e letteratura - Storia - Sec.20." . . "Novel·la S. XX Història i crítica." . . "litteraturkritik" . . "Roman fantastique Histoire et critique." . . "Fantasy fiction." . . "Literature." . . "Fantastic fiction." . . "Science-Fiction." . . "Frauenroman <<Das>> Phantastische Geschichte 1967-1996." . . "Het fantastische." . . "Women authors." . . "Fantastika (Književnost)" . . "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Literary." . . "Fiction." . . "écrivaine littérature fantastique américaine (Etats-Unis) 20e s. (fin)" . . "fantasy" . . "écrivaine littérature fantastique anglaise 20e s. (fin)" . . . . . . . . . "This book takes a wide-ranging approach to gendered readings of the fantastic as employed by fifteen contemporary women novelists writing between 1965 and the present day. Focusing on Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Bessie Head, Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson and Monique Wittig among others, it addresses a variety of cultural perspectives on the fantastic, including representations of the Jew as vampire, Welshness and fairy lore, Latin America as source of the 'exotic' and Black South Africa as the province of nightmare. Thematically, the book is haunted by two fictive narrators, Freud's Dora and Scheherazade, the narrator of the Thousand and One Nights - both of whom find their own stories continually reworked and replayed in contemporary women's novels. But further intertextual relations also recur in E.T.A. Hoffmann's The Sandman, Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own and Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. In that sense the contemporary fantastic is seen to be in ongoing contact with that of previous centuries. Refusing to take genre as its central structural principle, Armitt's approach focuses instead upon a series of fantastic tropes (the cyborg, the vampire, ghosts, fairies and automata) and their relationship to different cultural, conceptual and theoretical discourses. She also coins a new concept of the grotesque utopia as a means of rethinking celebratory readings of the fantastic in a manner that evades reductive capitulation to the `sealed off' text."@en . . . . . . . "History"@en . "History" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Electronic books" . "Electronic books"@en . . "Criticism, interpretation, etc" . "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." . . "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en . "Contemporary women's fiction and the fantastic" . "Contemporary women's fiction and the fantastic"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Contemporary Women's Fiction and the Fantastic" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Englisch." . . "Fantastic, The, in literature." . . "Großbritannien." . . "Frauenroman." . . "Novela fantástica s.20 Historia y crítica." . . "Englisch." . . "Das Phantastische." . . "Fantastique dans la littérature." . . "kvinde" . .