Document Type
Interview
Abstract
[First paragraph of Abstract]
Marleen S. Barr is a pioneer of feminist science fiction criticism and a leader in the fight against the ghettoizing influences of genre-labeling in literary criticism. While the noteworthy Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction (University of Iowa Press, 1992) has been praised as Barr's seminal work in feminist science fiction criticism and theory, it is in Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Cultural Studies (U of Iowa P, 2000) where she takes on literary critics' discriminatory practices against "genre fiction" in general and fantasy and science fiction in particular.
Repository Citation
Barr, Marlene S., Ximena Gallardo C., and C. J. Smith. "Oy Science Fiction: On Genre, Criticism, and Alien Love: An Interview with Marleen S. Barr." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 5, no. 4, 2005, pp. 1–7. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol5/iss4/8
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