02142nam a22003498a 4500 CR9781139814812 UkCbUP 20180107143411.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 121011s2013||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139814812 (ebook) 9781107038356 (hardback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda PN56.U8 W34 2013 809/.93372 23 Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer A., author. Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions / [electronic resource] Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor. Postmodern Utopias & Feminist Fictions Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. 1 online resource (250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). 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. Utopias in literature Feminism and literature Postmodernism (Literature) Print version: 9781107038356 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139814812 Cambridge Books Online 236410 236410