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CONTEMPORARY WOMEN?S POST-APOCALYPTIC FICTION IBD

SUSAN WATKINS
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
03 / 2020
9781137486493
Inglés

Sinopsis

This book examines how contemporary women novelists have successfullyátransformed and rewritten the conventions of post-apocalyptic fiction. Since theádawn of the new millennium, there has been an outpouring of writing that depicts the end of the world as we know it, and women writers are no exception to thisátrend. However, the book argues that their fiction is distinctive. ContemporaryáwomenâÇÖs 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 authoredáapocalyptic fiction. Instead, contemporary women writers show readersáthe ways in which patriarchy and neo-colonialism are intrinsically implicated ináthe disasters they envision, and offer qualified hope for a new beginning forásociety, culture and literature after an imagined apocalyptic event. Exploringáscience, nature and matter, the posthuman body, the maternal imaginary, time, narrative and history, literature and the word, and the post-secular, the bookácovers a wide variety of writers and addresses issues of nationality, race andáethnicity, as well as gender and sexuality.

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169,40€