Alien Plots

Female Subjectivity and the Divine in the Light of James Tiptree's 'a Momentary Taste of Being'

By: Inez Van Der Spek

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Hardcover | 29 February 2000

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At the heart of this stimulating and provocative study is a science fiction story by James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon-Bradley, 1916-1987) about a brother and a sister (and 58 other human beings) who encounter an alien while on a starship traveling to discover a habitable planet. The book includes an outline of Tiptree's work and of her remarkable life as the only child of jungle explorers, as a painter, an American agent during and after World War II, an experimental psychologist, and a female science fiction writer in male disguise.

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There is relatively little scholarship out there that delves deeply into the complexity of Tiptree's often bleak visions of the future. [...] This book seeks to do just that. The book is a well-wrought contribution to feminist criticism in general and Tiptree studies in particular.

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Fiction General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1900 to Current Science Astronomy, Space & Time Cosmology & The Universe Fiction Science Fiction

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Seed-beds: Crossing Theology, Feminism and Science Fiction	p. 24
Sexual Universes	p. 53
Father in Crisis, Mother Rises? 1. The Choric Fantasy	p. 85
Father in Crisis, Mother Rises? 2. (Extra) biblical Scenarios	p. 113
(Counter) Apocalypses	p. 142
A Momentary Taste of Being	p. 186
Notes	p. 213
Index of Names and Terms	p. 239
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