Gendering Domes between Pulp Era and New Wave
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The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction. ed. / Lisa Yaszek; Sonja Fritzsche; Keren Omry; Wendy Gay Pearson. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2023. p. 332-342.
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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 -