LEADER 04222nam 22005655 450 001 9910484658303321 005 20210318181059.0 010 $a1-137-48650-3 010 $a9781137486509 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-137-48650-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000010480463 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6126850 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-48650-9 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010480463 100 $a20200229d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aContemporary Women?s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction /$fby Susan Watkins 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Contemporary Women?s Writing,$x2523-8140 311 $a1-137-48649-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. 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. 330 $a?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). 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Contemporary Women?s Writing,$x2523-8140 606 $aLiterature, Modern?20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern?21st century 606 $aWomen 606 $aContemporary Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/815000 606 $aWomen's Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X35040 615 0$aLiterature, Modern?20th century. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern?21st century. 615 0$aWomen. 615 14$aContemporary Literature. 615 24$aWomen's Studies. 676 $a809.39372 700 $aWatkins$b Susan$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01067346 712 02$aProQuest (Firm) 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484658303321 996 $aContemporary Women?s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction$92550978 997 $aUNINA