Abortion Ecologies in Southern African Fiction

Acknowledgements
Credits
Introduction: Abortion, discourse and ecological metaphor
1 ANIMALS
Pregnancy as parasitism in Wilma Stockenstroem'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

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• Literatura: história e crítica
• Estudos literários: desde ~ 1900
• Estudos literários: literatura pós-colonial
• Estudos literários: ficção, romancistas e escritores de prosa
• Questões éticas: aborto e controle de natalidade

Botswana; South Africa; Zimbabwe; medical humanities; queer studies; queer theory; feminism; feminist theory; Wilma Stockenstroem; Zoe Wicomb; Yvonne Vera; Bessie Head; Apartheid; reproductive agency; power; slavery; pregnancy; ecology; Queer; post-Apartheid; HIV; AIDS; abortion laws; anti-abortionists; pro-life; pro-choice; stigma; social justice; ethics