Another Mom Bites the Dust: Motherhood and Futurity in a Literary Post-Apocalyptic Landscape

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dc.contributor.authorSchenk, Megan Marie
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-15T17:20:16Z
dc.date.available2018-12-15T17:20:16Z
dc.date.issued2018-06
dc.description65 pages. Presented to the Department of English and the Robert D. Clark Honors College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts June 2018
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores presentations of motherhood during and after literary apocalypses created since the turn of the century.  I argue that writers like Margaret Atwood, Claire Watkins, Louise Erdrich, and Megan Hunter challenge traditionally masculine ideas about surviving the end of the world by highlighting the role of the mother in gesturing in the beginning of a new world. Using scholarly criticism from writers like Lee Edelman and Rebekah Sheldon, this text illuminates connections between the image of mother and child as redemption and renewed purpose, a deep entanglement with the natural world and the sublime, the interplay of religion and spirituality with ideas of beginnings and endings, the missing or insufficient father, and concern with memory and transference in the age of the Anthropocene. Each of these elements work to uncover a vision of what motherhood means both at “the end” and in the first two decades of this millennium.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/24099
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US
dc.subjectEnglishen_US
dc.subjectPost-Apocalyptic Literatureen_US
dc.subjectMotherhooden_US
dc.subjectSublimeen_US
dc.subjectFeminismen_US
dc.subjectScience Fictionen_US
dc.subjectSpeculative Fictionen_US
dc.subjectApocalypseen_US
dc.titleAnother Mom Bites the Dust: Motherhood and Futurity in a Literary Post-Apocalyptic Landscape
dc.typeThesis/Dissertation

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