Le site SF Signal a demandé à plusieurs auteurs leur avis sur la question. Voici la réponse de Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
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| I love a good female protagonist. What makes a strong female protagonist? Well, that’s easy. The question should be reformed like this: What makes a strong protagonist? It’s the same: male/female/genderless. The protagonist must be intelligent first and foremost. She must make the right choices, based on what she knows. (She can make dumb choices if she doesn’t have all the information through no fault of her own.) She must be the equal of the antagonist in all ways. She should be aware of her weaknesses and she needs to work around them in one way or another—either with the help of a friend or companion or to stay away from situations where her weaknesses matter. She doesn’t have to be physically strong; but she does need to be mentally strong. And she must also use her strengths to her advantage. If she’s pretty, she needs to be aware of that and use it. If she’s a good physicist, she needs to use that. And so on. As for strong female protagonists, the urban fantasy writers are doing the best job with that right now. (Although I would be remiss if I don’t mention the main character of my Diving series, whom everyone calls Boss.) I like Ilona Andrews’ Kate Daniels, Adrian Phoenix’s Heather Wallace, and Phaedra Weldon’s Zoë Martinique. In current sf, I read all of Jack McDevitt’s Priscilla Hutchins novels. And as a standalone, the sf character who probably had the most impact on my own writing is Octavia Butler’s Dana from Kindred. There are a million strong female heroines in mystery series, and a lot in the sf short fiction realm. I truly wish we would get to parity, so that we don’t have to do these kinds of questions any more. A strong protagonist is a strong protagonist is a strong protagonist, and we all need to remember that. |
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