Combining feminist ideals with utopian visions of a future society based on principles of community and equality, Piercy imagined a post-apocalyptic world that established Woman on the Edge of Time as an early feminist innovation in the traditionally male genre of dystopian fiction. Depictions of sexuality and relations between the genders were already recognized as useful elements in depicting the conflict between individual and societal demands. "For example, the governments of dystopian societies like those described in We, Brave New World, and 1984 all focus on sexuality as a crucial matter for their efforts at social control. And it is also clear that this focus comes about largely because of a perception on the part of these governments that sexuality is a potential locus of powerful subversive energies."[16] Woman on the Edge of Time "finely counterpoints the utopianism of Mattapoisset with the dystopian realism with which Connie's actual world is represented."[17] The novel has been analyzed as a dystopia, as speculative fiction, and as realist fiction with fantastic episodes.[10] "By her vivid and coherent descriptions of new social institutions, Piercy has answered the famous Cold War dystopias like 1984 and Brave New World which lament that there is no possibility of imagining an anti-totalitarian society."[18] The book is often compared with other feminist utopian or dystopian fantasies such as Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness, Joanna Russ's The Female Man, Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.[17]
The year 1944 brought the publication of Erdman's first novel, Separate Star (3), a career book aimed at young women interested in pursuing a career in teaching. The book received favorable reviews in publications throughout the country. Her second book, Fair is the Morning (1945) (4), received considerable acclaim. Eleanor Roosevelt praised the book in a column she wrote for a New York newspaper. The Erdman Collection contains a copy of Mrs. Roosevelt's article. Erdman later sent Mrs. Roosevelt a copy of Separate Star, and the collection contains the original thank-you note written by the former First Lady.
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Erdman's third novel brought her not only acclaim, but also a considerable amount of money. She received the biennial $10,000 Dodd, Mead-Redbook Award for her book, The Years of the Locust (1946) (5). This novel, set in Missouri, is about a powerful, wise patriarch who touched many lives and whose death profoundly affects many friends, relatives, and acquaintances.
The Edge of Time (1950) (6) was the first book Erdman wrote about the settlement of the Texas Panhandle. This novel often is called her best book and is her only work still in print today. (It was selected to be number 11 in the Texas Tradition Series of classic Texas novels reprinted by the Texas Christian University Press.) It involves a newly married couple who move from Missouri to the Texas Panhandle near Mobeetie, where they start their married life in a primitive dugout. Erdman meticulously researched the lives of these "nesters," and she received letters from surviving pioneers and their children praising her accuracy. Erdman reports in A Time to Write that one woman wrote to her, "You have told our story. It fits our lives like jelly poured into a glass" (7). Erdman later said she felt as though the pioneers were looking over her shoulder as she wrote, making sure she got the details right (8).
Erdman later wrote a trilogy about the Pierces, a family of Texas Panhandle homesteaders. Each novel is the story of one of the family's three daughters. These books are The Wind Blows Free (10), and The Wide Horizon (11), and The Good Land (12). 2ff7e9595c
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