Women of Horror and Speculative Fiction in Their Own Words

Conversations with Authors and Editors

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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What makes science fiction genres better than others at challenging social conventions, especially gender? Are speculative works structured differently when addressed to traditionally under-portrayed individuals or communities?This collection of interviews elicits truly honest and thought-provoking responses that focus on the biographical dimension in speculative fiction, questions of intersectionality, genre (re)definitions and the politicization of fiction. It gives voice to women of different races, nations, classes and sexual orientations who write and edit speculative fiction – such as Ellen Datlow, Kathe Koja, Angela Mi Young Hur, Eugen Bacon, and Cat Rambo. The interviews clarify how the junction of genre and gender is a key element to understanding this literary field, while simultaneously contextualizing and theorizing the interview itself, as a literary genre and a research tool.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-02-08
Mått140 x 214 x 18 mm
Vikt311 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor232
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501384455

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Christina Kkona is Marie Curie Cofund Fellow-Associate Professor at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. She is co-editor, with Didier Coste and Nicoletta Pireddu, of Migrating Minds: Theories and Practices of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (2021).Sébastien Doubinsky is Associate Professor of French at the Aarhus University, Denmark. His publications include Reading Literature Today, with Tabish Khair (2011), and Equivalence(s): Necessity and Challenges in Translation Today, with Merete Birkelund and Christina Kkona (2019). He has also published many novels and poetry collections in English and French.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Eugen Bacon2. Francesca Barbini3. J. S. Breukelaar4. V. Castro5. Ellen Datlow6. Gemma Files7. Elizabeth Hand8. Marie Howalt9. Ai Jiang10. Penny Jones11. Margaret Killjoy12. Kathe Koja13. Anya Martin14. Angela Mi Young Hur15. Jane Mondrup16. Lisa Morton17. Malka Older18. Nuzo Onoh19. Cat Rambo20. Tricia Reeks21. Priya Sharma22. Angela Slatter23. Ann VanderMeer24. Kaaron WarrenIndex

Sébastien Doubinsky’s and Christina Kkona’s [book] is particularly valuable because it unites these diverse perspectives, offering readers a richer understanding of these genres and the voices within them. By bringing together different perspectives, their book adds new insight to the existing scholarship and offers a valuable contribution to the debate on the intersection of gender and genre.