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Children In Science Fiction Utopias: Feminism's Blueprint For Change, Jessica J. Brodie
Children In Science Fiction Utopias: Feminism's Blueprint For Change, Jessica J. Brodie
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this thesis was to examine the treatment and portrayal of children in science fiction utopian literature and determine whether this effectively indicated the writers’ feminist visions for social change. A feminist theoretical perspective and critical interpretation of several of the genre’s canon, Sheri Tepper’s The Gate to Women’s Country, Suzy McKee Chamas’s Motherlines, Sally Miller Gearhart’s The Wanderground, Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed and Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis series, were used as research methodologies.
The findings revealed that children communicate feminist prescriptions for change in three ways: children as the literal, biological future, the link …
Regional Aspects Of Miami Crime Fiction, Heidi Lee Alvarez
Regional Aspects Of Miami Crime Fiction, Heidi Lee Alvarez
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis argues that forces of literary regionalism and postmodern culture are behind the explosion of crime fiction being written in and about South Florida by a growing number of resident authors.
Research included four methods of investigation: 1. A critical reading of many of the novels that make up the sub-genre. 2. A study of the theories of regionalism, postmodernism and the genre of the crime fiction. 3. Interviews with a number of the authors and a prominent Miami book seller. 4. Sociological studies of Miami in terms of historical events and their cultural significance.
Today's South Florida crime …