Visions of Doom, Plots of Power: The Fantastic in Anglo-American Women's Literature / / Anne Koenen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Vervuert Archive eBook-Package 1979-1999
• VerfasserIn: Koenen, Anne,
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt am Main : : Vervuert Verlagsgesellschaft, , [1999]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Series: Leipziger Schriften. ; 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783964567819; 9783110606546
• DOI: 10.31819/9783964567819
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Anne Koenen.

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.