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- Title: Being Marleen S. Barr/Writing Oy Pioneer!: How to Succeed in Creating Jewish Humorous Feminist Science Fiction Without Really Trying to be Influenced by Literary "Tradition, Tradition".
- Author : Extrapolation
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 261 KB
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Why? Who says that I can't write an essay about a novel I authored? Why leave out all the fun and really inventive stuff pertaining to how my life and my novel relate to feminist science fiction in particular and literary tradition in general? Articulating a big Phooey to all naysayers, without further ado I present a chutzpah sodden text which juxtaposes real and imaginary worlds. (1) So, a funny thing happened on my way to becoming a feminist science fiction scholar who won the Pilgrim Award. "Get a life," commands a cliche. I had a life: once upon a time, I wrote ground breaking feminist science fiction criticism, embarked upon an around the world academic conference circuit husband hunting safari, and imagined that I was a Jedi knight wielding a laser sword while battling a department head who thought that science fiction is crap. I remember telling science fiction theorist par excellence Darko Suvin that I could turn my life into a novel. "Shut up and start writing," said Suvin in his inimitable direct Eastern European accented way. Since I did not even in my wildest imagination dare to think about not heeding the words of someone as brilliant as Suvin, my first novel Oy Pioneer! was born.