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Maternity in the post-apocalypse : novelistic re-visions of dystopian motherhood / Renae L. Mitchell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchell, Renae L., 1980- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motherhood in literature.
- Speculative fiction, American--History and criticism.
- Speculative fiction, American.
- Dystopias in literature.
- Apocalypse in literature.
- American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--Women authors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2022]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Intersectionality
- Overturning the Paternal Symbolic
- Maternal Post-Catastrophe Futures
- Note
- Chapter 1: GESTATION: The Crisis of Native Pregnancy in The Future Home of the Living God (2017)
- Motherhood in Plurality
- Maternity in Decline
- Maternal Agency Redefined
- Fathers Defectum and Mothers Invictus
- Sera
- Virginia, Sweetie, Mary, and Marian Subversion
- Mother Is the New Authoritarian in Town
- Amniotic Transition into the Post-Apocalypse
- Eschatological Indigeneity
- Notes
- Chapter 2: BIRTH: Deliverance through Plague in The Unnamed Midwife (2016)
- Gender Identity and the Inherently Intersectional
- Silent Mother and the Still, Still Born
- The Colony and Collapse of Patriarchal Maternity
- Matriarchal Law and a New Hive Mentality
- Birth in the Post-apocalyptic Æther
- Notes
- Chapter 3: NEW MOTHER: To Resist and Dis-Obeah in the Wasted Inner City of Brown Girl in the Ring (1999)
- Intersectional Single Motherhood
- Supernatural Caribbean Maternal Legacy
- Magical Women and the Threat to Patriarchal Order
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Chapter 4: MATERNAL FUTURES: Maternity and the Holy Book in Parable of the Talents (1999) and Who Fears Death (2014)
- Countergenealogies and Religious Literacy as the Road to a Maternal Future
- Mothers, Daughters, and (Re)Writing the New Order
- Maternal Afrofuturism
- Afterword
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Author
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 29, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Mitchell, Renae L., 1980- Maternity in the post-apocalypse
- ISBN:
- 9781793605566
- 1793605564
- Publisher Number:
- 40030884088
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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