Flowers of Time: On Postapocalyptic Fiction, Payne Mark

Автор: Payne Mark
Название: Flowers of Time: On Postapocalyptic Fiction
ISBN: 0691205949 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691205946
Издательство: Wiley
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An exploration of postapocalyptic fiction, from antiquity to today, and its connections to political theory and other literary genres

The literary lineage of postapocalyptic fiction--stories set after civilization's destruction--is a long one, spanning the biblical tale of Noah and Hesiod's Works and Days to the works of Mary Shelley, Octavia Butler, Cormac McCarthy, and many others. Traveling from antiquity to the present, Flowers of Time reveals how postapocalyptic fiction differs from other genres--pastoral poetry, science fiction, and the maroon narrative--that also explore human capabilities beyond the constraints of civilization. Mark Payne places postapocalyptic fiction into conversation with such theorists as Aristotle, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Claude L vi-Strauss, and Carl Schmitt, illustrating how the genre functions as political theory in fictional form.

Payne shows that rather than argue for a particular way of life, postapocalyptic literature reveals what it would be like to inhabit that life. He considers the genre's appeal in our own historical moment, contending that this fiction is the pastoral of our time. Whereas the pastoralist and the maroon had real-world hills to escape to and fashion their own versions of freedom, on a fully owned and occupied Earth, only an apocalyptic event can create a space where such freedoms are feasible once again.

Flowers of Time looks at how fictional narratives set after the world's devastation represent new conditions and possibilities for life and humanity.

Автор: Montgomery Maxine Lavon
Название: The Postapocalyptic Black Female Imagination
ISBN: 1350124508 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350124509
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: 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 Beyoncй - 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.