| Title : |
Contemporary women's post-apocalyptic fiction |
| Material Type: |
printed text |
| Authors: |
Susan Watkins, Author |
| Publisher: |
New York : Palgrave-Macmillan |
| Publication Date: |
2020 |
| Series: |
Palgrave studies in contemporary women's writing |
| Pagination: |
1 vol. (IX, 220p.) |
| Layout: |
ill. |
| Size: |
22 cm. |
| ISBN (or other code): |
978-1-137-48649-3 |
| General note: |
Notes bibliogr. Index |
| Languages : |
English (eng) |
| Descriptors: |
823 English fiction : novel
|
| Keywords: |
post-apocalyptique Femmes écrivains Science fiction Histoire et critique |
| Abstract: |
This book examines how contemporary women novelists have successfully transformed and rewritten the conventions of post-apocalyptic fiction. Contemporary women's work in this genre avoids conservatism, a nostalgic mourning for the past, and the focus on restoring what has been lost, aspects key to much male authored apocalyptic fiction. Instead, contemporary women writers show readers the ways in which patriarchy and neo-colonialism are intrinsically implicated in the disasters they envision, and offer qualified hope for a new beginning for society, culture and literature after an imagined apocalyptic event. Exploring science, nature and matter, the posthuman body, the maternal imaginary, time, narrative and history, literature and the word, and the post-secular, the book covers a wide variety of writers and addresses issues of nationality, race and ethnicity, as well as gender and sexuality |
Contemporary women's post-apocalyptic fiction [printed text] / Susan Watkins, Author . - New York : Palgrave-Macmillan, 2020 . - 1 vol. (IX, 220p.) : ill. ; 22 cm.. - ( Palgrave studies in contemporary women's writing) . ISBN : 978-1-137-48649-3 Notes bibliogr. Index Languages : English ( eng)
| Descriptors: |
823 English fiction : novel
|
| Keywords: |
post-apocalyptique Femmes écrivains Science fiction Histoire et critique |
| Abstract: |
This book examines how contemporary women novelists have successfully transformed and rewritten the conventions of post-apocalyptic fiction. Contemporary women's work in this genre avoids conservatism, a nostalgic mourning for the past, and the focus on restoring what has been lost, aspects key to much male authored apocalyptic fiction. Instead, contemporary women writers show readers the ways in which patriarchy and neo-colonialism are intrinsically implicated in the disasters they envision, and offer qualified hope for a new beginning for society, culture and literature after an imagined apocalyptic event. Exploring science, nature and matter, the posthuman body, the maternal imaginary, time, narrative and history, literature and the word, and the post-secular, the book covers a wide variety of writers and addresses issues of nationality, race and ethnicity, as well as gender and sexuality |
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Contemporary women's post-apocalyptic fiction
