Table of Contents

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

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Major scholarly study of post-apocalyptic writing by African American women writers, from Toni Morrison and Octavia Butler to Beyoncé.

About the Author

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).