2004/05/01 by Raffaella Baccolini · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Digital Games and Media #Spanish Literature and Culture Studies #Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
paper · doi:10.1632/003081204x20587
openalex publication_date 2004/05/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/02
It is widely accepted todaythat, whenever we receive or produce culture, we do so from a certain position and that such location influences how we theorize about and read the world. Because I am an Italian trained in the United States (specializing in American modernism) in the 1980s, my reading of science fiction has been shaped by my cultural and biographical circumstances as well as by my geography. It is a hybrid approach, combining these circumstances primarily with an interest in feminist theory and in writing by women. From the very beginning I have foregrounded issues of genre writing as they intersect with gender and the deconstruction of high and low culture. Such an approach, however, must also come to terms with the political and cultural circumstances that characterize this turn of the century.