Utopian and dystopian writing used to be a male domain until the middle of the twentieth century since when a number of women novelists have contributed to the genre. The article examines the recent shift towards ecological dystopia in three turn-of-the-millennium novels: Maggie Gee's The Ice People (1998), Doris Lessing's The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog (2005) and Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods (2007).
ecological dystopia; contemporary British women writers; Angela Carter; Maggie Gee; Doris Lessing; Jeanette Winterson
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