Le Silence de la cité by Élisabeth Vonarburg

One of the stated goals of Armitt's collection is to build upon Sarah Lefanu's For better or worse, and in spite of a long-standingįeminist distrust of canon formation, canons appear to be the almost inevitableĬonsequences of most efforts to cultivate a particular domain of critical discourse. Most American readers will be familiar with at least some of her idiosyncratic butĮxtraordinary excursions into SF. Of course, is critically respectable by any standards, and one can count on the fact that Works of Le Guin, Russ, and Tiptree, while a fourth examines Doris Lessing's SF. Issue on 'Science Fiction by Women' (July 1990), for example, three of the six essays whichĬonstitute the main body of the issue are individual-author studies of, respectively, the Ursula Le Guin, Joanna Russ, and, more recently, James Tiptree, Jr (Alice Sheldon), theīig Three of the contemporary feminist SF field. Has been produced in North America and has tended to focus upon such well-known figures as The emphasis on British writers is a timely one, since most available critical material Of this compilation are clearly literary. In spite of the fact that two of theĮssays collected here are discussions of SF film and the film industry, the main concerns SF by women writers, most of them also British. New ground in its focus on a number of relatively unknown writers and their works.Ĭomprised of thirteen essays by both literary critics and SF writers, all of them womenĪnd most of them British, it brings a variety of perspectives to bear on a wide range of

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Le Silence de la cité by Élisabeth Vonarburg