Women of Horror and Speculative Fiction in Their Own Words - Conversations with Authors and Editors

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.>

Product details

• Authors: Sebastien Doubinsky, Christina Kkona
• Assisted by: Sébastien Doubinsky (Editor), Christina Kkona (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.02.2024
• EAN: 9781501384455
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-8445-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 214 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Interviews, Speculative fiction, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gender studies: women, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Reportage, journalism or collected columns