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Joanna Russ and D. W. Griffith

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Samuel R. Delany
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Abstract

This essay begins by asserting the importance of Joanna Russ as an American writer of the second half of the twentieth century. Her feminist concerns and her stylistic bravura are examined, as are the ways in which she deals with the socioeconomic construction of power in orde r to transcend any uncritical biological essentialism. The second half of the essay considers the context of two phrases that occur in D. W. Griffith's film Intolerance and also in Russ's writing: “hill girl” and “the female man” (The Female Man is the title of one of Russ's novels). The possibility that Griffith's film is Russ's textual source for these phrases is considered.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 119 , Issue 3: Special Topic: Science Fiction and Literary Studies: The Next Millennium , May 2004 , pp. 500 - 508
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2004

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