Alien plots : female subjectivity and the divine in the light of James Tiptree's 'A momentary taste of being' / [electronic resource]
Spek, Inez van der,1958-author.
At the heart of this stimulating and provocative study is a science fiction story by James Tiptree Jr (Alice Sheldon-Bradley, 1916-1987) about a brother and a sister (and 58 other human beings) who encounter an alien while on a starship travelling to discover a habitable planet. The book includes an outline of Tiptree's work and of her remarkable life as the only child of jungle explorers, as a painter, an American agent during and after World War II, an experimental psychologist, and a female science fiction writer in male disguise.
Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I. Seed-beds: Crossing Theology, Feminism and Science Fiction; II. Sexual Universes; III. Father in Crisis, Mother Rises? 1. The Choric Fantasy; IV. Father in Crisis, Mother Rises? 2. (Extra)biblical Scenarios; V. (Counter) Apocalypses; VI. A Momentary Taste of Being; Notes; Index of names and terms
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jul 2017).
At the heart of this stimulating and provocative study is a science fiction story by James Tiptree Jr (Alice Sheldon-Bradley, 1916-1987) about a brother and a sister (and 58 other human beings) who encounter an alien while on a starship travelling to discover a habitable planet. The book includes an outline of Tiptree's work and of her remarkable life as the only child of jungle explorers, as a painter, an American agent during and after World War II, an experimental psychologist, and a female science fiction writer in male disguise.
Tiptree, James.
Science fiction, American
Subjectivity in literature.
Noncitizens in literature.
Women in literature.