RSS 1.0Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich 2020, t. 63, nr 1 (133)
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Temat numeru: Speculative Genre
Redaktor numeru: Katarzyna Ostalska, Tomasz Fisiak
Spis treści
- Katarzyna Ostalska, Tomasz Fisiak: Speculative Genre: The Gendered Dimension of Contemporary Utopia/Dystopia [Editorial Introduction]
- Tomasz Dobrogoszcz: Jeanette Winterson’s “The Stone Gods” as a Feminist Cyborg Story
- Katarzyna Ostalska: “More Liveable” Speculations: the Gender of SF in Margaret Atwood’s Short Story “Oursonette” and in the Comic Book / Graphic Novel War Bears
- Sonja Georgi: Female Cyborgs, Gender Performance, and Utopian Gaze in Alex Garland’s „Ex Machina”
- Adriana Kiczkowski: Fact and Fiction in a Robotic Society from a Feminist Perspective
- Kamila Ciepiela: The Body Discourse and Dystopian Identity Narratives of Women with Turner Syndrome
- Sławomir Kuźnicki: Under Our Eye: Margaret Atwood’s Variation on the Panopticon in “The Heart Goes Last”
- Małgorzata Warchał: “She Cuppeth the Lightning in her Hand”: Spirituality, Domination, and Violence in „The Power” (2016) by Naomi Alderman
- Edyta Lorek-Jezińska: Feminist Transgressions and Critical Dys-u-topian Drama: Ann Jellicoe, Bryony Lavery and Germaine Greer
- Tomasz Fisiak: “Hollywood is no place for idealists”: Hollywood as Dystopia in Cinema and Fiction
- Nelly Strehlau: Between Gazing and Witnessing: Feminism and Watching Women Suffer on Television
- Janica Tomić: Under Her Hat: Glimpses of Bonnet View
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Under Her Hat: Glimpses of Bonnet View
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)The paper introduces the concept of tableau as articulated by film history and theory, with examples from the films of Roy Andersson, Jean-Luc Godard and Lars von Trier. A lesser known tradition, the bonnet view originates ... -
Between Gazing and Witnessing: Feminism and Watching Women Suffer on Television
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)The present article discusses ethical aspects of the representations of (sexual) violence and (predominantly women’s) suffering in two recent television series, The Handmaid’s Tale and Dietland. It reflects on the uses and ... -
“Hollywood is no place for idealists”: Hollywood as Dystopia in Cinema and Fiction
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)The following article deals with the representation of Hollywood as a dystopian place, for women in particular, where glamour is a utopian façade for both literal and figurative corruption, where the lifespan of an actress ... -
Feminist Transgressions and Critical Dys-u-topian Drama: Ann Jellicoe, Bryony Lavery and Germaine Greer
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)Referring to the discussion on the critical potential of dystopias in fiction, the article examines twentieth century feminist plays by Ann Jellicoe, Bryony Lavery and Germaine Greer for their presentation and critical ... -
“She Cuppeth the Lightning in her Hand”: Spirituality, Domination, and Violence in The Power (2016) by Naomi Alderman
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)The Power by Naomi Alderman offers a dystopian vision of the world in which girls and women develop the ability to produce electric current. The power is both a blessing and a curse since it enables women to stand up to ... -
Under Our Eye: Margaret Atwood’s Variation on the Panopticon in The Heart Goes Last
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)In her dystopian dark comedy The Heart Goes Last (2015), Margaret Atwood openly refers to Jeremy Bentham’s concept of the Panopticon. The future world depicted in her novel is filled with violence and deprived of both human ... -
The Body Discourse and Dystopian Identity Narratives of Women with Turner Syndrome
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)The aim of the article is to compare and contrast dystopian discourse with the first-person life narratives told by females with a rare genetic disorder, Turner syndrome (TS). Employing the methodology of discourse analysis, ... -
Fact and Fiction in a Robotic Society from a Feminist Perspective
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)A new narrative of care for the elderly is being constructed in both fiction and our techno-societies that incorporates the use of robots in areas traditionally entrusted to women, reproducing some of the stereotypes ... -
Female Cyborgs, Gender Performance, and Utopian Gaze in Alex Garland’s Ex Machina
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)The cyborg as a metaphor for cultural encodings of the interaction between humans and technology has been an accepted trope since the publication of Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto.” Alex Garland’s 2015 film Ex Machina ... -
More Liveable” Speculations: the Gender of SF in Margaret Atwood’s Short Story “Oursonette” and in the Comic Book / Graphic Novel War Bears
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)Taking into account the broadness of the SF genre, the article commences with examining the difference between speculative fiction and science fiction, as outlined specifically by Donna J. Haraway and Margaret Atwood. ... -
Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods as a Feminist Cyborg Story
Dobrogoszcz, Tomasz
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)
Jeanette Winterson’s 2007 novel The Stone Gods is an admonitory tale about human environmental irresponsibility: in a highly gendered narrative the novelist demonstrates how the patriarchal domination inherent in human ... -
Speculative Genre: The Gendered Dimension of Contemporary Utopia/Dystopia
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)