Postapocalyptic Black Female Imagination

AvMaxine Lavon Montgomery

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Exploring postapocalypticism in the Black literary and cultural tradition, this book extends the scholarly conversation on Afro-futurist canon formation through an examination of futuristic imaginaries in representative twentieth and twenty-first century works of literature and expressive culture by Black women in an African diasporic setting.The author demonstrates the implications of Afro-futurist literary criticism for Black Atlantic literary and critical theory, investigating issues of hybridity, transcending boundaries, temporality and historical recuperation.Covering writers including Octavia Butler, Edwidge Danticat, Nalo Hopkinson, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward and Beyoncé, this book examines the ways Black women artists attempt to recover a raced and gendered heritage, and how they explore an evolving social order that is both connected to and distinct from the past.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-07-15
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:445 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350124509

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Maxine Lavon Montgomery is Professor of English at Florida State University, USA. Her recent publications include The Fictions of Gloria Naylor (2011) and, as editor, Conversations with Edwidge Danticat (2017).

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ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsOne Theorizing Post-Apocalypticism in the Twenty-First CenturyTwo Coming of Age on the Dark Side: Speculative Fictions of BlackGirlhood in Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling, Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring, and Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea LightThree ‘Queering’ the New World Order in Michelle Cliff’s Abeng and No Telephone to HeavenFour Un-Zombifying Blackness in Erna Brodber’s Myal and Gloria Naylor’s Bailey’s CaféFive Romance After the Ruin: Looking for Love in the Era of the ‘Post’ in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby, Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones,and Beyonce’s LemonadeConclusionNotesReferencesIndex