Wild child : intensive parenting and posthumanist ethics
Naomi Morgenstern
Bok · Engelsk · 2018
| Omfang | 278 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | The posthumanist wild child -- Is there a space of maternal ethics? Emma Donoghue's Room -- Postapocalyptic responsibility : patriarchy at the end of the world in Cormac McCarthy's The Road -- Maternal love / Maternal violence : inventing ethics in Toni Morrison's A Mercy -- "Monstrous decision" : destruction and relation in Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk about Kevin -- "Dis-ap-peared" : endangered children in Denis Villeneuvea's Prisoners and Alice Munro's Miles City, Montana -- The pretense of the human from Victor of Aveyron to Nim Chimpsky. - "Wild Child considers how twenty-first-century fiction imagines the decision to reproduce and the ethical challenges of posthumanist parenting. Naomi Morgenstern explores depictions of children and caregivers in extreme situations--from the violence of slavery and sexual captivity to accidental death and global apocalypse--in such works as Toni Morrison's A Mercy, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and Denis Villeneuve's film Prisoners"--
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| ISBN | 1517903785. - 1517903793. - 9781517903787. - 9781517903794
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