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Contemporary Women's Post-Apocalyptic Fiction (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Contemporary Women's Post-Apocalyptic Fiction (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women's Writing
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This book examines how contemporary women novelists have
successfully transformed and rewritten the conventions of
post-apocalyptic fiction. Since the dawn 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 this
trend. However, the book argues that their fiction is distinctive.
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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