1579 records matched your query       

Author:

Mitchell, Renae L., 1980- author.

Title:

Maternity in the post-apocalypse : novelistic re-visions of dystopian motherhood / Renae L. Mitchell.

Publisher:

Lexington Books,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

vii, 153 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Motherhood in literature.
Speculative fiction, American--History and criticism.
Dystopias in literature.
Apocalypse in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Apocalyptic literature.
Dystopias in literature.
English fiction--Women authors.
Motherhood in literature.
Pregnancy in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-149) and index.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1793605556
9781793605559

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1263283650

LCCN:

2021038068

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)