On strike against God
Call Number
- FICTION RUSS (CEN)
Edition
First Feminist Press edition.
Publication Information
New York City : The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2024.
Physical Description
309 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary
"A new critical edition of Joanna Russ's 1980 feminist novella On Strike Against God, supplemented with additional materials from Russ's archive. An introduction by Russ scholar Alec Pollak opens the edition, essays by contemporary writers Jeanne Thornton and Mary Anne Mohanraj grapple with Russ's enduring influence on feminist authors today, and an interview with Samuel R. Delany reflects on Delany's decades-long correspondence with Russ"--
Contents
- Introduction : I'm not a girl I'm a genius / by Alec Pollak
- On strike against God / by Joanna Russ
- Author's note / by Joanna Russ
- "On lightning, and after lightning" / by Jeanne Thornton
- "Nothing too frightening" / by Mary Anne Mohanraj
- "The other axis : an interview with Samuel R. Delany" / by Alec Pollak
- "What can a heroine do? Or why women can't write" / by Joanna Russ
- "Not for years but for decades" / by Joanna Russ
- Correspondence between Marilyn Hacker and Joanna Russ
- Alternate endings to On strike against God.