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Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Culture Studies - Softcover

Barr, Marleen S.

 
9780877457039: Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Culture Studies

Synopsis

What do Amsterdam prostitutes, NASA astronauts, cross-dressing texts, and Star Trek  characters have in common?  In Genre Fission, Marleen Barr wittily and eccentrically revitalizes cultural and literary theory by examining the points where such vastly different categories meet, converge, and reemerge as something new.

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About the Author

Marleen Barr teaches science and technology studies at Michigan State University. She is a winner of the Science Fiction Research Association Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction criticism. Barr is the author of Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction (Iowa, 1992), Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond, and Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory.

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