The Postapocalyptic Black Female Imagination (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350124509)

Exploring post-apocalypticism in the Black literary and cultural tradition, Post-Apocalypticism and the Black Female Imagination extends the scholarly conversation on Afro-futurist canon formation through an examination of futuristic imaginaries in representative 20th and 21st-century works of literature and expressive culture by Black women in an Afro-diasporic setting. The book demonstrates the implications of Afro-futurist literary criticism for Black Atlantic literary and critical theory, investigating issues of hybridity, border crossing, temporality, and historical recuperation. Covering a wide range of writers - including Octavia Butler, Edwidge Danticat, Nalo Hopkinson, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward and Beyoncé - Maxine Lavon Montgomery shows how Black women artists attempt to recover a raced, gendered heritage in framing an evolving social order existing as a part of, yet separate and distinct from, the past.

Author: Maxine Lavon Montgomery
ISBN-10: 1350124508
ISBN-13: 9781350124509
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2021
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d