Le visionarie. Fantascienza, fantasy e femminismo by Ann VanderMeer

The first, already director of the legendary magazine Weird Tales the second, author among other things of the successful Trilogy of Area X. To take care of the anthology, the couple symbol of the weird rebirth of the 2000s: Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Butler and Joanna Russ as figures unclassifiable as Leonora Carrington, so many teachers of the fantastic as Tanith Lee and Alice Bradley (aka James Tiptree Jr.) as writers still little known in Italy as the Argentine Angelica Gorodischer, the Finnish Leena Krohn and the Indian Vandana Singh. Le Guin and Angela Carter as new protagonists of speculative fiction such as Nnedi Okorafor, both historical names such as Octavia E. Among the visionaries who alternate in this anthology, we find as much classical names as Ursula K. The result is a kaleidoscope of imaginary stories that, in an unexpected and never ordinary way, link genre literature and genre literature. These are stories that range from science fiction to fantasy, from horror to weird fiction, written by women who have made the history and present of fantastic fiction, and who encounter a taste for the invention of other worlds and feminist reflection. Valente, Élisabeth Vonarburg.Le visionarie collect twenty-nine stories that outline the contours of a world that is futuristic, disturbing, dreamlike or just plain strange.

Le Guin, Rose Lemberg, Pat Murphy, Nnedi Okorafor, Susan Palwick, Kit Reed, Anne Richter, Joanna Russ, Pamela Sargent, Rachel Swirsky, Vandana Singh, Karin Tidbeck, James Tiptree Jr., Catherynne M.

Timmel Duchamp, Carol Emshwiller, Kelley Eskridge, Angélica Gorodischer, Hiromi Goto, Eileen Gunn, Leena Krohn, Tanith Lee, Ursula K.

Butler, Leonora Carrington, Angelica Carter, L. Racconti di Eleanor Arnason, Kelly Barnhill, Octavia E. Coordinamento per l'edizione italiana a cura di Claudia Durastanti e Veronica Raimo. “Ventinove racconti scelti dalla coppia Ann e Jeff VanderMeer ('Weird Tales', 'Trilogia dell'Area X') con il meglio della narrativa fantastica declinata in chiave femminista ventinove autrici sia classiche che contemporanee per un'antologia che proietta il presente in direzione di mondi a volte avveniristici e a volte surreali, investendo di nuova luce i meccanismi che sottendono non solo la costruzione dell'identità sessuale, ma anche il potere stesso.

Le visionarie. Fantascienza, fantasy e femminismo by Ann VanderMeer