Abortion Ecologies in Southern African Fiction : Transforming Reproductive Agency (Paperback)

Acknowledgements Credits Introduction: Abortion, discourse and ecological metaphor 1 ANIMALS Pregnancy as parasitism in Wilma Stockenstrom's The Expedition to the Baobab Tree Listening to beastly riddles Slavery, gestation and infantilization Translating negation A human being and powerful 2 PLANTS Uprooting desire in Zoe Wicomb's You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town Autopoiesis and the Bildungsroman Apartheid's abortive environments Seeds of disgust, roots of deviance Creative formations 3 MINERALS The in/organic tragedy of Yvonne Vera's Butterfly Burning Transforming 'rock bottom' Reproductive agency in two abortion scenes Beating hearts or striking rocks 4 HUMANS Queer vitality and Bessie Head's fiction 'Something or someone' and The Collector of Treasures Creative ferment in the Personal Choices trilogy Coda: New African time Conclusion: Questioning power, transforming futures References Notes