ABSTRACT
Angelika Bammer's, in-depth to feminism sets utopianism at its core based on the principle of women's liberation it was not only revolutionary but radically utopian. Few writers make this more effectively than Jeanette Winterson and Monique Wittig, in their joint commitment to feminism and the fantastic; situate open-ended narrative structures at the core of their work. In summary, these novels take us towards a new understanding of utopia which envelopes the grotesque. In the process they collectively carve out a fictive zone which reaches out into the beyond; including the unknowable beyond, while engaging with the unsatisfactory here and now of perceived liberation. Using aerielism as a fantastic manoeuvre to overcome spatiotemporal boundaries is very different from the futile escapism of taking flight. As the orange demon reminds us, you cannot have different without choosing the difficult and Winterson and Wittig both give us hell, but only as a necessary impulse towards offering us utopia.
