Alien Plots - Female Subjectivity and the Divine in the Light of James Tiptree's 'A Momentary Taste of Being'

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Inez Van Der Spek, Inez van der Spek
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2000
• EAN: 9780853238249
• ISBN: 978-0-85323-824-9
• No. of pages: 247
• Weight: 396 g
• Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies; Liverpool Science Fiction Text; Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies; Liverpool Science Fiction Text
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies