New Amazonia A Foretaste of the Future Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett |
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| Author:
| Corbett, Elizabeth Burgoyne |
| Introduction by:
| Lothian, Alexis |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61976-049-3 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2014 |
| Publisher: | Aqueduct Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $6.95 |
Book Description:
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"When Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett sat down in the late 1880s to imagine a world 500 years hence, she can little have imagined that her words would be pored over in another century, on another continent, in a community gathered around the kinds of imaginative engagement with gender that she was pioneering. L. Timmel Duchamp has described feminist science fiction as a "great conversation"; Corbett's speculations about New Amazonia are part of that conversation's prehistory, a fictional...
More Description"When Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett sat down in the late 1880s to imagine a world 500 years hence, she can little have imagined that her words would be pored over in another century, on another continent, in a community gathered around the kinds of imaginative engagement with gender that she was pioneering. L. Timmel Duchamp has described feminist science fiction as a "great conversation"; Corbett's speculations about New Amazonia are part of that conversation's prehistory, a fictional contribution to political debates with which the writer was intensively engaged. The book you are holding is a piece of utopian fiction, but it is just as much a feminist rant--entertaining, educational, and more than a little over the top." --from the Introduction by Alexis Lothian