Maternity in the post-apocalypse : novelistic re-visions of dystopian motherhood /

Maternity in the post-apocalypse : novelistic re-visions of dystopian motherhood /

"This book investigates how contemporary post-apocalyptic novels place maternal characters at the forefront of rebuilding and reconceiving a devastated world. By overturning patriarchal assumptions about the post-catastrophe world and women's place in it, the writers of the maternal post-a...

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Main Author: Mitchell, Renae L., 1980- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2022]
Subjects:
Motherhood in literature.
Speculative fiction, American > History and criticism.
Dystopias in literature.
Apocalypse in literature.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Maternity in the Post-Apocalypse Landscape
  • Gestation: The Crisis of Native Pregnancy in The Future Home of the Living God (2017)
  • Birth: Deliverance through Plague in The Unnamed Midwife (2016) - New Mother: To Resist and Dis-Obeah in the Wasted Inner City of Brown Girl in the Ring (1999)
  • Maternal Futures: Maternity and the Holy Book in Parable of the Talents (1999) and Who Fears Death (2014)
  • Conclusion: Material Memory: Maternity in the Future Present.

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