Oy Pioneer!

by Barr, Marleen S.

• ISBN13: 9780299189105
• ISBN10: 0299189104
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-17
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

What would happen if a feminist Jewish wit and scholar invaded David Lodge's territory? Marleen S. Barr, herself a pioneer in the feminist criticism of science fiction, provides a giddily entertaining answer in this feisty novel. Oy Pioneer!follows professor Sondra Lear as she makes her inimitable way through a world of learning-at times fantastic, at times all too familiar, often hilarious, and always compulsively interesting. As if Mel Brooks and Erica Jong had joined forces to recreate Sex and the Cityfor the intellectual set, the story is a heady mix of Jewish humor, feminist insight, and academic satire. Lear is a tenured radical and a wildly ambitious intellectual, but is subject nonetheless to the husband-hunting imperatives of her Jewish mother. Her adventures expand narrative parameters according to Barr's term "genre fission." Mixing elements of science fiction, fantasy, ethnic comedy, satire, and authentic experience of academic life, Oy Pioneer!is uncommonly fun-a Jewish feminist scholar's imaginative text boldly going where no academic satire has gone before-and bringing readers along for an exhilarating ride.

Author Biography

Marleen S. Barr is Scholar in Residence at the Brandeis University Women's Studies Department

Table of Contents

1 Plastic	3	(5)
2 The Long Good-bye	8	(4)
3 The Spy Who Didn't Love Me	12	(5)
4 Slaughterhouse One	17	(3)
5 The Ultimatum; or, Springtime for Hundschnort	20	(4)
6 Garbage	24	(3)
7 Chickens	27	(9)
8 Into the Woods	36	(6)
9 Heat	42	(4)
10 Surprise, Disguise	46	(7)
11 Surprise, Reprise	53	(5)
12 The Land of Milk and Honey and More	58	(9)
13 More	67	(7)
14 Someone Is Sleeping in My Bed	74	(3)
15 Chicken Redux	77	(5)
16 Ejection Seat	82	(4)
17 La (Un)Dolce Vita	86	(18)
18 Coming Out of the Closet	104	(2)
19 Sexual Harassment	106	(6)
20 Big-Mouthed Bigfoot Escapes	112	(6)
21 Welcome to the Hotel California	118	(10)
22 I Don't Want to Suck Your Blood	128	(15)
23 Back to the Salt Mine	143	(11)
24 How the West Was Lost	154	(12)
25 The Homecoming	166	(7)
26 A Course Taught by a Horse? Of Course, of Course	173	(4)
27 Blackhole(a), Blackhole(a)	177	(3)
28 New York Is Where I'd Rather Stay, I Get Allergic Smelling Hay; or, Escape from the Planet of the Goyim	180	(13)
29 Murder in the Apartment (Not in the English Department); or, "H" Is for Homicide	193	(5)
30 Fear of Flying; or, The Return of the Native	198	(12)
31 The Dating Game	210	(11)
32 The Tsurisauruses	221	(8)
33 Smile, You're Not on Candid Camera; or, The Empire Strikes Back	229	(8)
34 The Sounds of Silence	237	(8)
35 Murder in the English Department	245	(10)
36 Episode II-Attack of the Clones; or, Don't Bet on the Prince?	255