Wild child : intensive parenting and posthumanist ethics / Naomi Morgenstern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgenshṭern, Noʻomi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feral children in literature.

Philosophical anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Wild Child considers how twenty-first-century fiction imagines the decision to reproduce and the ethical challenges of posthumanist parenting. Naomi Morgenstern explores depictions of children and caregivers in extreme situations--from the violence of slavery and sexual captivity to accidental death and global apocalypse--in such works as Toni Morrison's A Mercy, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and Denis Villeneuve's film Prisoners"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The posthumanist wild child

Is there a space of maternal ethics? Emma Donoghue's Room

Postapocalyptic responsibility : patriarchy at the end of the world in Cormac McCarthy's The Road

Maternal love / Maternal violence : inventing ethics in Toni Morrison's A Mercy

"Monstrous decision" : destruction and relation in Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk about Kevin

"Dis-ap-peared" : endangered children in Denis Villeneuvea's Prisoners and Alice Munro's Miles City, Montana

The pretense of the human from Victor of Aveyron to Nim Chimpsky.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4529-5685-5