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nancylebov) wrote2010-02-20 10:34 am
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Not exactly the Heroine's Journey
The Heroine's Journey is being discussed over at Tor.com, and aside from the question of whether, if there isn't something parallel to Campbell's Hero's Journey for women all over the place in literature and folklore, whether that isn't what women generally want from fiction, if there's any fiction about becoming a matriarch, by which I mean a story that starts when the protagonist is a girl and finishes when she has a large, successful, reasonably happy family, with at least grandchildren if not great-grandchildren.
This isn't the story I absolutely need to read to feel good, but I think I could enjoy it.
Maybe it's in sf I've missed, maybe it's in long historicals I haven't read, maybe no one's doing it.
This isn't the story I absolutely need to read to feel good, but I think I could enjoy it.
Maybe it's in sf I've missed, maybe it's in long historicals I haven't read, maybe no one's doing it.
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(Anonymous) 2010-02-21 03:05 am (UTC)(link)houseboat
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Elswyth Thane has a little of it in the first two Williamsburg books.
Absolutely Roberta Gellis's Roselynde series (this one is particularly interesting because a very young heroine in the first book has a romance, a happy first marriage, and after the death of her much older husband goes on to a second happy marriage and romance. You really might like Gellis's books.
I'd argue that Lois Bujold is doing this with Cordelia.
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Jong and Hopkinson
(Anonymous) 2010-02-22 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)David Bellamy