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

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Renae L. Mitchell
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781793605559
• ISBN: 978-1-79360-555-9
• No. of pages: 162
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women & girls, dystopia;dystopian;maternity;motherhood;mothers