Marleen S Barr
Biographic Data
| ID | 230318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marleen S Barr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marleen S |
| FAMILY NAME | Barr |
| SIGNATURE | BARR M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Looking Backward—Fondly
Lyman Tower Sargent has had a personal and professional impact upon me. I cannot separate the effects of reading his work from engaging with him as a mentor—and more. Hence, this piece will focus on personal and professional texts and their contexts. I revisit Sargent's “An Ambiguous Legacy: The Role and Position of Women in the English Eutopia,” an essay he contributed to my Future Females: A Critical Anthology (1981). I include passages from my…
Dan Muchina, director. Monsoons over the Moon. 2015. 8 minutes (part 1) and 10 minutes (part 2). English and Swahili (no subtitles). Kenya, YouTube. https
Dan Muchina, director. Monsoons over the Moon. 2015. 8 minutes (part 1) and 10 minutes (part 2). English and Swahili (no subtitles). Kenya, YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q72Mmwhza-k (Part 1). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMFRGv55ggQ (Part 2). - Volume 59 Issue 3
Oy/Octavia
Oy/Octaviaor Keeping My Promise to Ms. Butler Marleen S. Barr (bio) I did not have the pleasure of knowing Octavia E. Butler personally. It is best then for me to mention my involvement with a book chapter about her work and a story written by her. These pieces, created a little more than two decades apart, relate to each other in that the chapter played a role in the story’s publication. During the early 1980s, I was responsible for the first sc…
Reading Science Fiction
Female Astronauts Do Not Have the Wrong Stuff
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Science fiction and the cultural logic of early post postmodernism
We live science fiction. —Marshall McLuhan Thus, instead of belonging to “the tiny genre of feminist science fiction films” (as Dave Kehr of the New York Times so dismissively and condescendingly p
Marleen S. Barr Throws the Book
Cherry Picking
Fantastic literature in the new South Africa
Feminist Fabulation
Lost in Space
Archaeologists and anthropologists discover other civilizations; science fiction writers invent them. In this collection of her major essays, Marleen Barr argues that feminist science fiction writers contribute to postmodern literary canons with radical alternatives to mainstream patriarchal society. Because feminist science fiction challenges male-centered social imperatives, it has been marginalized and dismissed from the canon--thus, lost in s…
Feminist Fabulation
The surprising and controversial thesis of Feminist Fabulation is unflinching: the postmodern canon has systematically excluded a wide range of important women's writing by dismissing it as genre fiction. Marleen Barr issues an urgent call for a corrective, for the recognition of a new meta- or supergenre of contemporary writing--feminist fabulation--which includes both acclaimed mainstream works and works which today's critics consistently ignor…
When It Deconstructed, or, Gender, Lies, and Videotape
Professor Sondra Lear was depressed. The backlash against feminist scholars was too effective. None of her feminist colleagues could get promoted. None of her feminist graduate students could get hired. Only the conservative women patriarchy judged to be proper had a chance to succeed. must do something, Sondra thought as she entered the conclusion to Feminist Fabulation into her computer. She was very tired. Her fatigue made her feel giddy. solv…
Spreading the Word, Thin(ly)
Feminist fabulation; or, playing with patriarchy vs. the masculinization of metafiction
The Females do the Fathering!”
Tiptree’first novel, Up the Walls of the World (1978), and two of her short stories. “Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death” (1973) and “A Momentary Taste of Being” (1975), can be taken as representasive of the particular feminist point of view of her fiction generally and of her manner of dramatizing it in terms of communal mergers and biological alteration. What especially merits attention in these regards are the adult human gametes and male mat…
Deborah Norris Logan, Feminist Criticism, and Identity Theory
Feminist scholars are devoting much attention to unearthing women's diaries and letters. As they develop new theories to interpret these noncanonical works, feminists should not dismiss other theories generated by the male critical establishment. To provide one link between new feminist scholarship and existing male-generated theory, this essay explains why it is fruitful to illuminate a woman's diary-the diary of Deborah Norris Logan (1761-1839)…
Dame unise, feminist maiden who fares well with the patriarchy
Science fiction and the cultural logic of early post postmodernism
We live science fiction. —Marshall McLuhan Thus, instead of belonging to “the tiny genre of feminist science fiction films” (as Dave Kehr of the New York Times so dismissively and condescendingly p
Dame unise, feminist maiden who fares well with the patriarchy
Dame unise, feminist maiden who fares well with the patriarchy
Deborah Norris Logan, Feminist Criticism, and Identity Theory
Feminist scholars are devoting much attention to unearthing women's diaries and letters. As they develop new theories to interpret these noncanonical works, feminists should not dismiss other theories generated by the male critical establishment. To provide one link between new feminist scholarship and existing male-generated theory, this essay explains why it is fruitful to illuminate a woman's diary-the diary of Deborah Norris Logan (1761-1839)…
The Females do the Fathering!”
Tiptree’first novel, Up the Walls of the World (1978), and two of her short stories. “Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death” (1973) and “A Momentary Taste of Being” (1975), can be taken as representasive of the particular feminist point of view of her fiction generally and of her manner of dramatizing it in terms of communal mergers and biological alteration. What especially merits attention in these regards are the adult human gametes and male mat…
Feminist fabulation; or, playing with patriarchy vs. the masculinization of metafiction
Spreading the Word, Thin(ly)
Feminist Fabulation
The surprising and controversial thesis of Feminist Fabulation is unflinching: the postmodern canon has systematically excluded a wide range of important women's writing by dismissing it as genre fiction. Marleen Barr issues an urgent call for a corrective, for the recognition of a new meta- or supergenre of contemporary writing--feminist fabulation--which includes both acclaimed mainstream works and works which today's critics consistently ignor…
When It Deconstructed, or, Gender, Lies, and Videotape
Professor Sondra Lear was depressed. The backlash against feminist scholars was too effective. None of her feminist colleagues could get promoted. None of her feminist graduate students could get hired. Only the conservative women patriarchy judged to be proper had a chance to succeed. must do something, Sondra thought as she entered the conclusion to Feminist Fabulation into her computer. She was very tired. Her fatigue made her feel giddy. solv…
Feminist Fabulation
Lost in Space
Archaeologists and anthropologists discover other civilizations; science fiction writers invent them. In this collection of her major essays, Marleen Barr argues that feminist science fiction writers contribute to postmodern literary canons with radical alternatives to mainstream patriarchal society. Because feminist science fiction challenges male-centered social imperatives, it has been marginalized and dismissed from the canon--thus, lost in s…
Fantastic literature in the new South Africa
Cherry Picking
Marleen S. Barr Throws the Book
Science fiction and the cultural logic of early post postmodernism
We live science fiction. —Marshall McLuhan Thus, instead of belonging to “the tiny genre of feminist science fiction films” (as Dave Kehr of the New York Times so dismissively and condescendingly p
Female Astronauts Do Not Have the Wrong Stuff
Preview this article: Female Astronauts Do Not Have the Wrong Stuff: Boldly Going Where No Media Attention to Captain Lisa M. Nowak Has Gone Before, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/eme/6/1/s5-1.gif
Reading Science Fiction
Oy/Octavia
Oy/Octaviaor Keeping My Promise to Ms. Butler Marleen S. Barr (bio) I did not have the pleasure of knowing Octavia E. Butler personally. It is best then for me to mention my involvement with a book chapter about her work and a story written by her. These pieces, created a little more than two decades apart, relate to each other in that the chapter played a role in the story’s publication. During the early 1980s, I was responsible for the first sc…
Dan Muchina, director. Monsoons over the Moon. 2015. 8 minutes (part 1) and 10 minutes (part 2). English and Swahili (no subtitles). Kenya, YouTube. https
Dan Muchina, director. Monsoons over the Moon. 2015. 8 minutes (part 1) and 10 minutes (part 2). English and Swahili (no subtitles). Kenya, YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q72Mmwhza-k (Part 1). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMFRGv55ggQ (Part 2). - Volume 59 Issue 3
Looking Backward—Fondly
Lyman Tower Sargent has had a personal and professional impact upon me. I cannot separate the effects of reading his work from engaging with him as a mentor—and more. Hence, this piece will focus on personal and professional texts and their contexts. I revisit Sargent's “An Ambiguous Legacy: The Role and Position of Women in the English Eutopia,” an essay he contributed to my Future Females: A Critical Anthology (1981). I include passages from my…
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