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9780819569011

On Joanna Russ

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  • ISBN13:

    9780819569011

  • ISBN10:

    0819569011

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-03-02
  • Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr
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Summary

Joanna Russ, a feminist writer best known for The Female Man (1975), has produced a fierce, intense body of fiction and essays whose influence has been wide-ranging and complex. Her many publications include How to Suppress Women's Writing (1983), and she has won both of science fiction's most prestigious awards, the Nebula and the Hugo. The essays in this volume examine every aspect of Russ's body of work and provide a critical assessment that is long overdue. The first part of the book, "Criticism and Community," gives readers a context for and overview of Russ's works, and includes discussions of Russ's role in the creation of a feminist science fiction tradition. The second part, "Fiction," offers detailed analyses of some of Russ's writing. Contributors include: Andrew M. Butler, Brian Charles Clark, Samuel R. Delany, Edward James , Sandra Lindow, Keridwen Luis, Paul March-Russell, Helen Merrick, Dianne Newell, Graham Sleight, Jenea Tallentire, Jason Vest, Sherryl Vint, Pat Wheeler, Tess Williams, Gary K. Wolfe, and Lisa Yaszek.

Author Biography

FARAH MENDELSOHN teaches at Middlesex University, London. She is the author of Rhetorics of Fantasy (2008) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (2006), winner of a Hugo Award.

Table of Contents

Introductionp. vii
Criticism and Community
Alyx among the Genresp. 3
Russ on Writing Science Fiction and Reviewing Itp. 19
A History of One's Own: Joanna Russ and the Creation of a Feminist SF Traditionp. 31
The Female "Atlas" of Science Fiction? Russ, Feminism and the SF Communityp. 48
Learning the "Prophet Business": The Merril-Russ Intersectionp. 64
Fiction
Joanna Russ's The Two of Them in an Age of Third-wave Feminismp. 83
"That Is Not Me. I Am Not That": Anger and the Will to Action in Joanna Russ's Fictionp. 99
Les Human Beans? Alienation, Humanity and Community in Joanna Russ's On Strike Against Godp. 114
Kittens Who Run with Wolves: Healthy Girl Development in Joanna Russ's Kittatinnyp. 131
Medusa Laughs: Birds, Thieves, and Other Unruly Womenp. 143
Violent Women, Womanly Violence: Joanna Russ's Femmes Fatalesp. 157
Art and Amity: The "Opposed Aesthetic" in Mina Loy and Joanna Russp. 168
Joanna Russ and D. W. Griffithp. 185
Extraordinary People: Joanna Russ's Short Fictionp. 197
Castaway: Carnival and Sociobiological Satire in We Who Are About Top. 210
The Narrative Topology of Resistance in the Fiction of Joanna Russp. 225
Notesp. 239
Works Citedp. 251
Contributorsp. 271
Indexp. 275
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