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Speculative novelist Sandra Newman recast's '1984' (with the blessing of George Orwell's estate) as 'Julia,' a feminist spin on the dystopian classic.
Almost 75 years after George Orwell’s “1984” was published in 1949, readers can return to Airstrip One with its Newspeak and Ministries of Truth, Peace, Love and Plenty. It’s the rare ...
The author of The Butterfly and the Flame Dana De Young, references that 1984 as an influence on her writings. In addition to being dystopian literature, The Butterfly and the Flame features several subtle homages to Orwell's work. One of the main characters, Julia La Rouche, was named after Julia in 1984. Aaron and Emily La Rouche stay in a ...
Lady MacBeth is described as a "feminist retelling" of Shakespeare's character Lady Macbeth, to be released by Del Rey in August 2024. [4] Reid has said Lady Macbeth is her favorite character, due to her ambition and wiles, which inspired her to explore her character in a novel of her own. She calls the novel a work of "gothic, feminist fiction ...
Feminist literature is fiction or nonfiction which supports the feminist goals of defining, establishing and defending equal civil, political, economic and social rights for women. It often identifies women's roles as unequal to those of men – particularly as regards status, privilege and power – and generally portrays the consequences to ...
Sandra Newman (born November 6, 1965, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American writer.She has a BA from Polytechnic of Central London, and an MA from the University of East Anglia.
Feminist revisionist mythology tends to fulfill at least one of these goals. Instead of just studying prior works though, it is the revision of old texts to create new ones. Revision Mythmaking is a strategic revisionist use of gender imagery and is a means of exploring and attempting to transform the self and the culture or, in other words, to ...
Made up of short essays by women [5] who represent more than 80 countries, Sisterhood Is Global "was hailed as 'an historic publishing event,' 'an instant classic,' and 'the definitive text on the international women's movement,' and adopted widely as a course text in women's studies, international affairs, global economics, and several other disciplines", as Morgan has acknowledged.