Cauldron of Changes: Feminist Spirituality in Fantastic Fiction - Softcover

Crosby, Janice C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786473762 ISBN 13: 9780786473762

Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2013

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Book by Janice C Crosby

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provid[es] an abundance of information - Choice ""a well-organized analysis...effective readings...presents an informed perspective"" - SFRA Review

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This book examines the spiritual dimensions found in the literature of the fantastic (science fiction, fantasy, and magical realism) by linking such novels to actual currents within the feminist spirituality movement. Fusing popular culture studies, women's studies, and close textual analysis, the author moves beyond earlier studies that fail to address the genre's use of goddess worship, psychic phenomena, and reverence for the earth. She reveals how such attributes betoken a spiritual awakening with profound implications for contemporary feminism. Special emphasis is given to both the struggle to provide an alternative to men-centered experience and to the need to articulate ways in which feminists can achieve personal and social power. The authors studied represent a variety of American voices, and include both firmly established and newer writers such as Marion Zimmer Bradley, Kim Chernin, Alice Walker, Mercedes Lackey, Patricia Kennealy, Gael Baudino, Octavia Butler, Lynn Abbey, Joan Vinge, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Ntozake Shange, and Starhawk.

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• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0786473762
• ISBN 13: 9780786473762
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216