1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996321130103316

Titolo

Mundo FESC

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cúcuta, Colombia : , : Fundación de Estudios Superiores Comfanorte, FESC

ISSN

2216-0388

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Science - Colombia

Science

Technology - Colombia

Technology

Electronic journals.

Periodicals.

Colombia Periodicals

Cúcuta (Norte de Santander, Colombia) Periodicals

Colombia

Colombia Cúcuta (Norte de Santander)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Spagnolo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484658303321

Autore

Watkins Susan <1967->

Titolo

Contemporary Women’s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction / / by Susan Watkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9781137486509

1137486503

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing, , 2523-8159

Disciplina

809.39372

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature, Modern - 21st century

Feminism

Feminist theory

Contemporary Literature

Feminism and Feminist Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Rewriting and Transforming Traditions -- 2. Science, Nature and Matter -- 3. The Posthuman Body -- 4. The Maternal Imagination -- 5. Time, Narrative and History -- 6. Literature and the Word -- Conclusion: The Postsecular.

Sommario/riassunto

‘This is an impressive study, homing in on a notable gap in writing within the apocalyptic tradition. It is engagingly written, extensive in its choice of texts and, throughout, the textual analysis is in productive dialogue with critical theory. Repeatedly, we learn how the fiction of elsewhere and the fiction of the future urgently speak to our here and now.’ — Mary Eagleton, author of Clever Girls and the Literature of Women’s Upward Mobility (2018) 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 maleauthored 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. Susan Watkins is a Professor of Women’s Writing at Leeds Beckett University. Her key publications include Twentieth-Century Women Novelists: Feminist Theory into Practice (2001), Doris Lessing (2010) and (as co-editor) Scandalous Fictions: The Twentieth-Century Novel in the Public Sphere (2006), Doris Lessing: Border Crossings (2009) and The History of British Women’s Writing Vol 9: 1945–1975 (2017).