Postapocalyptic Black Female Imagination

Exploring postapocalypticism in the Black literary and cultural tradition this book extends the scholarly conversation on Afro-futurist canon formation through an examination of futuristic imaginaries in representative twentieth and twenty-first century works of literature and expressive culture by Black women in an African diasporic setting.<br/><br/>The author demonstrates the implications of Afro-futurist literary criticism for Black Atlantic literary and critical theory investigating issues of hybridity transcending boundaries temporality and historical recuperation.<br/><br/>Covering writers including Octavia Butler Edwidge Danticat Nalo Hopkinson Toni Morrison Jesmyn Ward and Beyoncé this book examines the ways Black women artists attempt to recover a raced and gendered heritage and how they explore an evolving social order that is both connected to and distinct from the past.