02142nam a22003498a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141040002400170050002300194082001900217100004100236245009700277246004300374264005200417300005900469336002600528337002600554338003600580500007300616520089300689650002601582650002801608650003101636776003501667856007101702999001901773CR9781139814812UkCbUP20180107143411.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||121011s2013||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9781139814812 (ebook)  z9781107038356 (hardback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aPN56.U8 bW34 201300a809/.933722231 aWagner-Lawlor, Jennifer A.,eauthor.10aPostmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions / [electronic resource]cJennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor.3 aPostmodern Utopias & Feminist Fictions 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2013.  a1 online resource (250 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aThis 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. 0aUtopias in literature 0aFeminism and literature 0aPostmodernism (Literature)08iPrint version: z978110703835640uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139814812zCambridge Books Online  c236410d236410