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Loading... The Country You Have Never Seen: Essays and Reviewsby Joanna Russ
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 Russ’s talent as writer, critic, and activist is evident in every piece in this book. Anyone who writes book reviews or is interested in feminist history and politics will find something to delight, instruct, and amuse in Russ’s works — whether she is reviewing terrible, unknown SF novels or writing letters calling feminist critics to task for their (mis)understanding of the “Lesbian/ Feminist Sex Wars” (p.297). The wit and clarity with which she dissects the literary and ideological operations of texts means that even reading thirty-year-old book reviews is both pleasurable and instructive. "I have a weakness for good literary criticism—the kind that is trenchant and witty and intellectually rigorous, but also passionately and personally felt—and Joanna Russ hits all my buttons, lighting me up like a pinball machine." Belongs to Publisher SeriesAwards
In 1959, at the age of 22, Joanna Russ published her first science fiction story, "Nor Custom Stale," in The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy. In the forty-five years since, Russ has continued to write some of the most popular, creative, and important novels and stories in science fiction. She was a central figure, along with contemporaries Ursula K. Le Guin and James Tiptree, in revolutionizing science fiction in the 1960s and 1970s, and her 1970 novel The Female Man is widely regarded as one of the most successful and influential depictions of a feminist utopia in the entire genre. The Country You Have Never Seen gathers Joanna Russ's most important essays and reviews, revealing the vital part she played over the years in the never-ending conversation among writers and fans about the roles, boundaries, and potential of science fiction. Spanning her entire career, the collection shines a light on Russ's role in the development of new wave science fiction and feminist science fiction, while at the same time providing fascinating insight into her own development as a writer. No library descriptions found. |
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