Abstract
“Joining the Cultural Minority” examines the influence of Nabokov on Joanna’s modernist, postrealist sensibility, her “fictional autobiography” project, and her insistence on the “fictiveness of fiction.” The chapter discusses issues of agency and assimilation in her fifth novel. A “re-visioning and re-perceiving” of a work by Joanna’s friend Suzette Halden Elgin, related to Joanna’s important 1970 story “The Second Inquisition,” The Two of Us (1978) features a talented young “Trans-Temp” agent who realizes that if other women are chattels, her own, special status is an illusion. Reviews, essays, and stories discussed include “Recent Feminist Utopias”; “On the Yellow Wallpaper”; “Not for Years but for Decades”; and the engaging, juvenile “coming of age” story Kitattinny, all of which confirm a shift toward feminism and away from feminist sf.
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