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Contemporary Women’s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, Hardback Book

Contemporary Women’s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction Hardback

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing series

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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, narrativeand 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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