Naomi Morgenstern

Wild Child

Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics

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Produktbeschreibung

Naomi Morgenstern is associate professor of English at the University of Toronto.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 140mm x 216mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9781517903794
• ISBN-10: 1517903793
• Artikelnr.: 49677057

Autorenporträt

Naomi Morgenstern is associate professor of English at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: The Posthumanist Wild Child
1. Is There a Space of Maternal Ethics? Emma Donoghue’s Room
2. Postapocalyptic Responsibility: Patriarchy at the End of the World in
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
3. Maternal Love/Maternal Violence: Inventing Ethics in Toni Morrison’s A
Mercy
4. “Monstrous Decision”: Destruction and Relation in Lionel Shriver’s We
Need to Talk about Kevin
5. “Dis-ap-peared”: Endangered Children in Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners
and Alice Munro’s “Miles City, Montana”
Afterword: The Pretense of the Human from Victor of Aveyron to Nim Chimpsky
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index