Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions(English, Hardcover, Wagner-Lawlor Jennifer A.)

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Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions(English, Hardcover, Wagner-Lawlor Jennifer A.) is written by Wagner-Lawlor Jennifer A. and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1107038359 (ISBN 10) and 9781107038356 (ISBN 13).

This study examines feminist speculative fiction from the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, and finds within it a new vision for the future. Rejecting notions of postmodern utopia as exclusionary, Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor advances one defined in terms of hospitality, casting what she calls 'imaginative sympathy' as the foundation of utopian desire. Tracing these themes through the works of Atwood, Butler, Lessing and Winterson, as well as those of well-known Muslim feminists such as El Saadawi, Parsipur and Mernissi, Wagner-Lawlor balances literary analysis with innovative extensions of feminist philosophy to show how inclusionary utopian thinking can inform and promote political agency. Examining these contemporary fictions reveals the rewards of attending to a community that acknowledges difference, diversity and the imaginative potential of every human being.