This study investigates the fantastic as a literary mode in the work of 20th century Anglo-American women writers such as Edith Wharton, Jean Rhys, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Octavia Butler.
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. The Fantastic As Feminine Mode - Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
- 2. Theories of the Fantastic
- 3. A History of Fantasy in White Women's Literature
- 4. The Fantastic in the Literatures of Women of Color
- 5. Ambiguous Dreams - Utopia as a State of Mind
- 6. The Past as Nightmare - Dystopia as a State of Body
- 7. Sea-Changes - Metamorphoses as Plots of Power
- 8. Alien(N)ations - Home, Displacement, and Aliens
- 9. Conclusion
- 10. Bibliography