Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction

by Marleen S. Barr

Book Overview

The surprising and controversial thesis of Feminist Fabulation is unflinching: the postmodern canon has systematically excluded a wide range of important women's writing by dismissing it as genre fiction. Marleen Barr issues an urgent call for a corrective, for the recognition of a new meta- or supergenre of contemporary writing--feminist fabulation--which includes both acclaimed mainstream works and works which today's critics consistently ignore...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877453772
• ISBN13: 9780877453772
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"