Wild child : intensive parenting and posthumanist ethics /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morgenstern, Naomi, 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
Temas:
2000-2099
Parent and child in literature.
Parenthood in literature.
Literature, Modern > 21st century > History and criticism.
Parents et enfants dans la littérature.
Littérature > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Canadian.
Literature, Modern.
Feral children in literature.
Philosophical anthropology.
Silence (Philosophy)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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