Overview
Wild Child considershow twenty-first-century fiction imagines the decision to reproduce and theethical challenges of posthumanist parenting. Naomi Morgenstern exploresdepictions of children and caregivers in extreme situations-from the violenceof slavery and sexual captivity to accidental death and global apocalypse-insuch works as Toni Morrison's A Mercy, Cormac McCarthy's TheRoad, and Denis Villeneuve's film Prisoners.
Full Product Details
Author: Naomi Morgenstern
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 3.80cm
, Length: 21.60cm
ISBN: 9781517903794
ISBN 10: 1517903793
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 08 May 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Your child isn't civilized. Neither are you. Expect the child to be more productively destructive and survivalist than you imagined, showing us to be the techno-relational-vulnerable animals that we are, strange to the core in crisis and change. Also expect that you won't find a smarter, more forthright, and beautifully nuanced guide to these thoughts than Naomi Morgenstern. Impressive and persuasive. -Kathryn Bond Stockton, author of The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century Wild Child is a brilliant and thoroughly engaging study of reproductive ethics and the ethics of parenting in narratives of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Naomi Morgenstern's command of theoretical texts, both philosophical and psychoanalytic, is prodigious, and her writing style is vibrant-at once theoretically complex and alive with personal twists and turns of language. -Jean Wyatt, author of Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison's Later Novels
"""Your child isn’t civilized. Neither are you. Expect the child to be more productively destructive and survivalist than you imagined, showing us to be the techno-relational-vulnerable animals that we are, strange to the core in crisis and change. Also expect that you won’t find a smarter, more forthright, and beautifully nuanced guide to these thoughts than Naomi Morgenstern. Impressive and persuasive.""—Kathryn Bond Stockton, author of The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century ""Wild Child is a brilliant and thoroughly engaging study of reproductive ethics and the ethics of parenting in narratives of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Naomi Morgenstern's command of theoretical texts, both philosophical and psychoanalytic, is prodigious, and her writing style is vibrant—at once theoretically complex and alive with personal twists and turns of language.""—Jean Wyatt, author of Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison's Later Novels"
Author Information
Naomi Morgenstern is associate professor of English at the University of Toronto.
