Specific Literatures Research subject English Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-72996 OAI: oai:DiVA.Ammonite is British-American author Nicola Griffith's debut novel, which was published in 1992. Reproductive technology, feminist theory, science fiction National Category Place, publisher, year, edition, pages2018. On a more general note, Ammonite also raises equally topical questions of assimilation and integration, of power and powerlessness in meetings between cultures. The emphasis on belonging in the novel, and in particular belonging represented as part of a biological/genetic process comes across as highly topical in a time where we increasingly talk about identity and kinship in terms of DNA.
Finally, the idea of be-longing, of being or becoming part of a world or a community and the ways in which the novel connects this experience to reproduction will be explored. First, I look at how the novel represents reproduction as not only a biological but also a mental process secondly, sexuality and its connection to reproduction will be discussed.
This paper focuses on Nicola Griffith’s novel Ammonite (1992), set on the all-female planet of Jeep and featuring Earth-born anthropologist, and newcomer to Jeep, Marghe Taishan. Examining both “reproductive solutions” and how these are represented as part of cultural, social and political contexts allows us to explore feminist reproductive futurities that is, we can explore ways in which feminism can reformulate both reproduction and kinship per se, and, more importantly, the connection between these and a future free from gender-based oppression. In constructing these worlds, one vital aspect that by necessity needs to be re-thought is reproduction. 2018 (English) Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed) Abstract Īll-female worlds, often utopian, are part of the feminist sf-tradition.
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