Renae L. Mitchell

Maternity in the Post-Apocalypse

Novelistic Re-visions of Dystopian Motherhood

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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-apocalypse offer a (re)vision of speculative literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9781793605573
• ISBN-10: 1793605572
• Artikelnr.: 68536463

Autorenporträt

Renae Mitchell is an instructor at the University of New Mexico at Los Alamos.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Maternity in the Post-Apocalyptic Landscape
Chapter One: GESTATION: The Crisis of Native Pregnancy in The Future Home
of the Living God (2017)
Chapter Two: BIRTH: Deliverance through Plague in The Unnamed Midwife
(2016)
Chapter Three: NEW MOTHER: To Resist and Dis-Obeah in the Wasted Landscape
of Brown Girl in the Ring (1999)
Chapter Four: 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