TY - CHAP

T1 - Gendering Domes between Pulp Era and New Wave

AU - Gellai, Szilvia

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 selection and editorial matter, Lisa Yaszek, Sonja Fritzsche, Keren Omry, and Wendy Gay Pearson; individual chapters, the contributors.

PY - 2023/1/1

Y1 - 2023/1/1

N2 - Transparent domes are an essential trope in science fiction (SF) and come in various forms and scales, sheltering (or constricting) whole cities or single persons. Tracing the genealogies of SF’s “dome cultures” from early works inspired by the Crystal Palace with its colonialist implications to their heyday during the Pulp Era and the New Wave, this chapter argues that SF domes are spaces for exploring experimental sociopolitical orders, explicitly addressing mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion. Often they are hostile, hermetic environments, especially for women. However, they can also serve as poetological metaphors for establishing “spaces of one’s own,” as a critical reading of core texts by authors like Marlen Haushofer and Ursula K. Le Guin reveals.

AB - Transparent domes are an essential trope in science fiction (SF) and come in various forms and scales, sheltering (or constricting) whole cities or single persons. Tracing the genealogies of SF’s “dome cultures” from early works inspired by the Crystal Palace with its colonialist implications to their heyday during the Pulp Era and the New Wave, this chapter argues that SF domes are spaces for exploring experimental sociopolitical orders, explicitly addressing mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion. Often they are hostile, hermetic environments, especially for women. However, they can also serve as poetological metaphors for establishing “spaces of one’s own,” as a critical reading of core texts by authors like Marlen Haushofer and Ursula K. Le Guin reveals.

KW - Science fiction

KW - Transparency

KW - Gender

KW - ecocriticism

KW - Marlen Haushofer

KW - Glass culture

KW - cybernetics

KW - Cultural studies

KW - Science of art

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85151223777&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.4324/9781003082934-51

DO - 10.4324/9781003082934-51

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9780367537029

SN - 9780367537012

SP - 332

EP - 342

BT - The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction

A2 - Yaszek, Lisa

A2 - Fritzsche, Sonja

A2 - Omry, Keren

A2 - Pearson, Wendy Gay

PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group

ER -