The Postapocalyptic Black Female Imagination

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
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: July 15, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 192 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1350124508
• | ISBN-13: 9781350124509