Women’s liberation consciousness made the utopia-maternal link explicit in fiction
Evidence
This passage evokes the beautiful (withheld rather than promised) land as the nurturant maternal body. The linkage of the utopian to the maternal, found frequently throughout Western figurations and analyses of utopia, is an important element of the fictional configurations I analyze here. The conscious deployment of this linkage is characteristic of the self-conscious engagement with gender politics of post-sixties postmodernist fiction, forged in the heat of second-wave feminism and the other sixties new social movements. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 905
Categorization
- XREF: Builds on the earlier feminist-chapters claim that the personal is political under feminism. — connects to: American utopianism peaked in the antebellum era, allied with abolitionism — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 889; Historical displacement lets fiction examine utopia’s aftermath cleanly — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 894; Fiction can smuggle rescue narratives into putatively feminist texts — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 226 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Fiction can smuggle rescue narratives into putatively feminist texts
#qualifies(0.75) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 226 - Narration neutralizes subject and object, anticipating utopian reconciliation in its structure
#expands(0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 384 - Utopian socialism confused female liberation with sexual and mystical roles
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