Marge Piercy

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Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936 ) is an American writer and feminist .

Life and accomplishments

Marge Piercy was born in Detroit during the Great Depression and grew up in a working class family. She studied with a scholarship, was politically active, and joined the peace, anti-nuclear and women's movements. She has published 17 novels, mostly told in the tradition of socially critical US realism , including famous historical and science fiction . Her books reflect a wide variety of worlds, especially Jewish and female, and show social problems and contradictions, attempts at liberation and struggles. She is considered one of the most influential feminist writers of the 20th century and has published 19 volumes of poetry. Her work has been translated into sixteen languages. Marge Piercy lives on Cape Cod with her husband, Ira Wood.

Works

In 1976, in her novel Frau am Abgrund der Zeit , Marge Piercy formulated a radical criticism of psychiatry in the USA in the 1970s and at the same time developed the still fascinating utopia of an economy based on common ownership and an ecologically oriented science. The novel inspired u. a. Donna Haraway on her cyborg manifesto.

In the science fiction Er, Sie und Es , published in 1991, Marge Piercy developed the scenario of an earth largely destroyed by environmental destruction and nuclear war, which is ruled by competing multinational corporations. The cyberpunk novel about artificial intelligence and human-nature-technology relationships, inspired by William Gibson and Donna Haraway , depicts the struggle of the free Jewish city of Tikva against the threat from one of the large corporations and the subversive use of high-tech to protect its own Independence.

People at War is a novel about World War II . It is not only about the events in the theaters of war, but also about the everyday life experienced by women during the war. Piercy describes, among other things, how a young American in Washington uses decrypted radio messages to follow maneuvers in the Southwest Pacific, how a young French woman who wanted to study philosophy joins the Resistance , like a jobless landscape painter who occasionally struggles as a man for certain hours in the secret service lands, but also how the lives of those who stayed at home in the USA have radically changed as a result of the war. "Much of what is known in the abstract as history lesson vocabulary can be vividly imagined here, for example life in France under the occupation or in London after the Blitzkrieg."

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marge Piercy | Fembio. Retrieved September 24, 2017 (d).
  2. ^ Sonja Andermahr: Gender and the Student Experience: Teaching Feminist Writing in the Post-Feminist Classroom . In: A. Ferrebe, F. Tolan (eds.): Teaching Gender. Teaching the New English . Palgrave Macmillan, London 2012.
  3. ^ Marge Piercy | Jewish Women's Archive. Accessed September 24, 2017 .
  4. ↑ About Marge - Marge Piercy. Retrieved September 24, 2017 (American English).
  5. ^ Annette Schlemm (philosopher): Woman on the abyss of time. Retrieved September 24, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Donna Haraway: SF: Science Fiction, Speculative Fabulation, String Figures, So Far - Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology . In: Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology . November 3, 2013 ( adanewmedia.org [accessed September 24, 2017]).
  7. ^ Bronwen Calvert: Cyborg Utopia in Marge Piercy's Body of Glass (Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 34:95, Autumn 2005, pp. 52-61) . ( academia.edu [accessed September 24, 2017]).
  8. ^ Marge Piercy | For the love of freedom. Retrieved September 24, 2017 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Piercy, Marge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and feminist
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1936