Tatiana Teslenko teaches at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her research interests are genre studies, feminist criticism, cultural theory, and utopian studies. Most recently, she co-edited The Rhetoric and Ideology of Genre, in which she published a chapter entitled "Ideology and Genre: Heteroglossia of Soviet Genre Theories."

• CONTENTS:List of TablesPrefaceIntroductionRhetoric of IdentificationNew Rhetoric of GenreChapter 1: Utopia and UtopianismUtopia and IdeologyUtopia as Literary GenreChapter 2: Utopianism and FeminismScraping False DichotomiesGenre TransformationChapter 3: Dorothy Bryant: Saving the Human RaceThe Real WorldUtopian ChronotopeUtopian PeopleDream-time: Fluid Meaning and Rigid WordThe Law of LightChapter 4: Joanna Russ: New Meaning for Old ConceptsCalculated AmbiguityJanet the SaviorJeannine: Cognitive StarvationJael: Terror of TerrorismJoanna: Usurp the DeniedIdentification RevisitedConclusion: Utopian Genre as Feminist StrategyGlossaryBibliography