Contemporary Women's Fiction and the Fantastic

By: L. Armitt

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Hardcover | 17 June 2000 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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Acknowledgements	p. ix
Copyright Permissions	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Literary Antecedents	p. 2
Contemporary Phantoms and Other Monsters	p. 4
Echoes and Exorcisms: Nineteenth-Century Reflections	p. 6
Dora Meets Scheherazade	p. 9
The Grotesque Utopia: Joanna Russ, Jeanette Winterson, Angela Carter, Jane Palmer and Monique Wittig	p. 15
Female Grotesques: The Female Man, Dogwoman and Fevvers	p. 16
Horizons and Hybridity: Jeanette Winterson and Monique Wittig	p. 23
Women in Flight: The Watcher (1986) and Across the Acheron (1987)	p. 29
Gendering the Chronotope: Sexing the Cherry (1989)	p. 35
Chronotopes and Cyborgs: Octavia Butler, Joanna Russ, Fay Weldon and Marge Piercy	p. 39
The Polychronotopic Text: Kindred (1979)	p. 39
Splitting the Subject across Space and Time	p. 43
OncoMouse and Other Monsters: The Cloning of Joanna May (1989)	p. 49
The Post-Nuclear Family: Body of Glass (1991)	p. 58
Vampires and the Unconscious: Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison and Bessie Head	p. 66
The Vampire, the Jew and the One-Sex Body	p. 68
Covering the Traces: The Robber Bride (1993)	p. 74
The Succubus: Beloved (1987)	p. 80
The Viennese Witch Doctor: A Question of Power (1974)	p. 84
Freud, Dora and Alias Grace (1996)	p. 91
Ghosts and (Narrative) Ghosting: Margaret Atwood, Jeanette Winterson and Toni Morrison	p. 102
Rebecca: The Ghost(ed) Text	p. 103
Apparitional Geometries: The Robber Bride (1993)	p. 107
A Ghostly Romance: Written on the Body (1992)	p. 115
Writing Black in White Ink: Beloved (1987)	p. 121
Fairies and Feminism: Alice Thomas Ellis, Fay Weldon and Elizabeth Baines	p. 130
Border-Crossings: Fairy Tale (1996)	p. 134
Spinsters and Stepmothers	p. 138
Tennyson and the Tarot: The Cloning of Joanna May (1989)	p. 146
Briar Rose/Dead Dolls: The Birth Machine (1983)	p. 151
Magic Realism Meets the Contemporary Gothic: Isabel Allende and Angela Carter	p. 160
Evoking the Strange(r): The House of the Spirits (1985)	p. 166
Originary Tales: Eva Luna (1988)	p. 170
Magically Gothic: The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr Hoffman (1972)	p. 175
Agoraphobic Reflections: Nights at the Circus (1984)	p. 180
Dancing with Death: Wise Children (1991)	p. 184
Mannequins in the Marketplace: Angela Carter, Pat Barker and Margaret Atwood	p. 191
Women on the Market: Blow Your House Down (1984)	p. 195
The Return of (the Repressed) Dora: The Magic Toyshop (1967)	p. 200
Olympia and the Swan-Maiden	p. 204
The (Market-) Value of Words: The Handmaid's Tale (1985)	p. 211
Mothering and Melancholia	p. 216
Conclusion: The Lost Mother	p. 220
Notes	p. 224
Bibliography	p. 241
Index	p. 253
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