Alien Plots: Female Subjectivity and the Divine in the Light of James Tiptree's 'a Momentary Taste of Being'

by Inez van der Spek

Book Overview

At the heart of this stimulating and provocative study is a science fiction story by James Tiptree Jr (Alice Sheldon-Bradley, 1916-1987) about a brother and a sister (and 58 other human beings) who encounter an alien while on a starship travelling to discover a habitable planet. The book includes an outline of Tiptree's work and of her remarkable life as the only child of jungle explorers, as a painter, an American agent during and after World War...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853238243
• ISBN13: 9780853238249
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"