The Postapocalyptic Black Female Imagination

Maxine Lavon Montgomery is Professor of English at Florida State University, USA. Her recent publications include The Fictions of Gloria Naylor (2011) and, as editor, Conversations with Edwidge Danticat (2017).

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

One Theorizing Post-Apocalypticism in the Twenty-First Century

Two Coming of Age on the Dark Side: Speculative Fictions of Black
Girlhood in Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling, Nalo Hopkinson’s
Brown Girl in the Ring, and Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea
Light

Three ‘Queering’ the New World Order in Michelle Cliff’s Abeng and No
Telephone to Heaven

Four Un-Zombifying Blackness in Erna Brodber’s Myal and Gloria
Naylor’s Bailey’s Café

Five Romance After the Ruin: Looking for Love in the Era of the ‘Post’
in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby, Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones,
and Beyonce’s Lemonade

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index