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).

• ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsOne Theorizing Post-Apocalypticism in the Twenty-First CenturyTwo Coming of Age on the Dark Side: Speculative Fictions of BlackGirlhood in Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling, Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring, and Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea LightThree ‘Queering’ the New World Order in Michelle Cliff’s Abeng and No Telephone to HeavenFour Un-Zombifying Blackness in Erna Brodber’s Myal and Gloria Naylor’s Bailey’s CaféFive 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 LemonadeConclusionNotesReferencesIndex