Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction

Travel, Technology, Time
Herausgeber: Castro, Ingrid E.; Clark, Jessica

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Produktbeschreibung

Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction: Travel, Technology, Time intersects considerations about children's and youth's agency with the popular culture genre of science fiction. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency in children's lives, this collection places science fiction at the heart of this endeavor. Retellings of the past, narratives of the present, and new landscapes of the future, each explored in science fiction, allow for creative reimaginings of the capabilities, movements, and agency of youth. Core themes of generation, embodiment, family, identity, belonging, gender, and friendship traverse across the chapters and inform the contributors' readings of various film, literature, television, and virtual media sources. Here, children and youth are heterogeneous, and agency as a central analytical concept is interrogated through interdisciplinary, intersectional, intergenerational, and posthuman analyses. The contributors argue that there is vast power in science fiction representations of children's agency to challenge accepted notions of neoliberal agency, enhance understandings of agency in childhood studies, and further contextualize agency in the lives, voices, and cultures of youth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9781498597388
• ISBN-10: 1498597386
• Artikelnr.: 57578343

Autorenporträt

Edited by Ingrid E. Castro and Jessica Clark - Afterword by Gary Westfahl - Contributions by Ingrid E. Castro; Jessica Clark; Muireann B. Crowley; Joseph Giunta; Erin Kenny; Jessica Kenty-Drane; Kip Kline; Megan McDonough; Joaquin Muñoz; Kwasu David Tembo

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Girl Zombies and Boy Wonders: The Future of Agency is Now!
Jessica Clark and Ingrid E. Castro Part I: Past Chapter One: "Why Are You
Keeping This Curiosity Door Locked?" Childhood Subjectivities and Play as
Conflict Resolution in the Postmodern Web Series Stranger Things Joseph
Giunta Chapter Two: "It Was a Wonder I Was Even Born": Reversing the
Technical Performance of Childhood in Back to the Future Kip Kline Chapter
Three: In the Shadow of the Claw: Jubilee, X-23, and the Mutated
Possibilities of Youth Agency across Generations in the World of the X-Men
Kwasu David Tembo and Muireann B. Crowley Part II: Present Chapter Four:
Biker Gangs and Boyhood Agency Jessica Clark Chapter Five: From Tribute to
Mockingjay: Representations of Katniss Everdeen's Agency in the Hunger
Games Series Megan McDonough Chapter Six: The Yoke of Childhood: Misgivings
about Children's Relationship to Technology in Contemporary Science Fiction
Jessica Kenty-Drane Chapter Seven: "Ship Wars" and the OTP: Narrating
Desire, Literate Agency, and Emerging Sexualities in Fanfiction of The 100
Erin Kenny Part III: Future Chapter Eight: A Pedagogy of Childhood Agency:
Teaching Power of Youth in the Ender Universe Joaquin Muñoz Chapter Nine:
Sanctuary and Agency in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction Stephanie Thompson
Chapter Ten: The Emergence of Agency after Bionuclear War: Posthuman Child
- Animal Possibilities Ingrid E. Castro Afterword: The Children of Wonder
Gary Westfahl