![]() ![]() Language stopped, and the world was made anew for them in a hellscape of abuse, dislocation and enslavement. For many of the adults and children trafficked in this trade, history stopped. For people of the African diaspora one of the most significant real history apocalyptic events was the Transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans. The apocalypse is conceptually ever in front of us, but speculative and near-future apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction operates at a level of understanding that the apocalypse has already happened, multiple times. Here Montgomery addresses the scope of the imagined post-apocalyptic world, from the Burn that destroys Toronto in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in The Ring, to the layers of visioning forwards and backwards in Beyonce’s Lemonade. This slim volume is the latest in Professor Maxine Montgomery’s decades-long and seminal investigation into Black women’s apocalyptic writing. ![]() The Postapocalyptic Black Female Imagination by Maxine Lavon Montgomery ![]()
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