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 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 Lemonade
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index