{"title":"Det postapokalyptiske moderskab","authors":"M. Marcussen","doi":"10.7146/pas.v34i82.118286","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n \n \nThe article investigates a new type of narrative, where motherhood and catastrophe are interwoven. This inquiry questions how Megan Hunter presents the mother as heroine of a new type of feminist science fiction and how she uses a postapocalyptic frame to depict motherhood in crisis by showing how language falls short of fathoming experiences – both of birth and flood – beyond human understanding. Hunter’s novel succeeds in intertwining the events of motherhood and apocalypse, thus showing how both lend their language and experience to each other. \n \n \n","PeriodicalId":360035,"journal":{"name":"Passage - Tidsskrift for litteratur og kritik","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Passage - Tidsskrift for litteratur og kritik","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7146/pas.v34i82.118286","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
The article investigates a new type of narrative, where motherhood and catastrophe are interwoven. This inquiry questions how Megan Hunter presents the mother as heroine of a new type of feminist science fiction and how she uses a postapocalyptic frame to depict motherhood in crisis by showing how language falls short of fathoming experiences – both of birth and flood – beyond human understanding. Hunter’s novel succeeds in intertwining the events of motherhood and apocalypse, thus showing how both lend their language and experience to each other.