Toward a New Literary Archives:
Recovering Marginalized Texts, Authors, and Cultures,
from Medieval Persian Poetry to the Expanded Star Wars Universe
Representations of Female Authorship in the Academic Community
Malinda Hackett & Jessica Stewart
There has been a long history of underrepresented female authorship in academic scholarship , especially in relation to genre fiction. Authors such as William Faulkner, Hans Christian Anderson, Raymond Chandler, and Edgar Allen Poe are consistently used to illustrate examples of an array of genres such as; science fiction, gothic, and detective fiction while their female counterparts are largely ignored. In recent years, however, female authorship within genre fiction has gained critical awareness. Scholars have begun to analyze historically marginalized texts in order to bring awareness to previously unknown female authorship and representation within genre fiction. The following texts are emblematic of the ongoing conversation surrounding such scholarship.