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02846aam a2200457 i 4500 001 566B712ADCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 210901s2021 mdu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021038068 020 $a 1793605556 020 $a 9781793605559 035 $a (OCoLC)1263283650 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d UKMGB $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d CDX $d YDX $d IAI $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS374.M547 $b M58 2022 082 00 $a 813/.540935252 $2 23 100 1 $a Mitchell, Renae L., $d 1980- $e author. 245 10 $a Maternity in the post-apocalypse : $b novelistic re-visions of dystopian motherhood / $c Renae L. Mitchell. 264 1 $a Lanham : $b Lexington Books, $c [2022] 300 $a vii, 153 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-149) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : Maternity in the Post-apocalyptic 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 risk and dis-obeah in the wasted inner city of Brown Girl in the Ring (1999) -- Maternal futures: Maternity and the Holly Book in Parable of the Talents (1999) and Who Fears Death (2014) -- Conclusion : Material memory : maternity in the future present. 650 0 $a Motherhood in literature. 650 0 $a Speculative fiction, American $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Dystopias in literature. 650 0 $a Apocalypse in literature. 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a Apocalyptic literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00811395 650 7 $a Dystopias in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00900374 650 7 $a English fiction $x Women authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910866 650 7 $a Motherhood in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01026934 650 7 $a Pregnancy in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01075160 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Critiques litteÌraires. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000001939 776 08 $i Online version: $a Mitchell, Renae L., 1980- $t Maternity in the post-apocalypse $d Lanham : Lexington Books, 2021 $z 9781793605566 $w (DLC) 2021038069 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117013802.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=566B712ADCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search