Contents
Introduction: The Posthumanist Wild Child
1. Is There a Space of Maternal Ethics? Emma Donoghue’s Room
2. Postapocalyptic Responsibility: Patriarchy at the End of the World in
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
3. Maternal Love/Maternal Violence: Inventing Ethics in Toni Morrison’s A
Mercy
4. “Monstrous Decision”: Destruction and Relation in Lionel Shriver’s We
Need to Talk about Kevin
5. “Dis-ap-peared”: Endangered Children in Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners
and Alice Munro’s “Miles City, Montana”
Afterword: The Pretense of the Human from Victor of Aveyron to Nim Chimpsky
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
