Contemporary Women's Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

by Susan Watkins

This book examines how contemporary women novelists have successfully transformed and rewritten the conventions of post-apocalyptic fiction. Since the dawn of the new millennium, there has been an outpouring of writing that depicts the end of the world as we know it, and women writers are no exception to this trend. However, the book argues that their fiction is distinctive. Contemporary women's work in this genre avoids conservatism, a nostalgic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113748649X
• ISBN13: 9781137486493
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"