Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults (eBook, PDF)

Brave New Teenagers
Redaktion: Basu, Balaka; Hintz, Carrie; Broad, Katherine R.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection enacts a lively debate about the goals and efficacy of YA dystopias, with three major areas of contention: do these texts reinscribe an old didacticism or offer an exciting new frontier in children's literature? Do their political critiques represent conservative or radical ideologies? And finally, are these novels high-minded attempts to educate the young or simply bids to cash in on a formula for commercial success? This collection represents a prismatic and evolving understanding of the genre, illuminating its relevance to children's literature and our wider culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136194764
• Artikelnr.: 39266453

Autorenporträt

Balaka Basu is a Ph.D. candidate in English at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, US. Katherine R. Broad holds a Ph.D. in English from The Graduate Center, City University of New York, US. Carrie Hintz is Associate Professor of English at Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, US.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Freedom and Constraint: Adolescent Liberty and Self
Determination 1. What Faction Are You In?: The Pleasure of Being Sorted in
Veronica Roth's 2. Coming of Age in Dystopia: Reading Genre in Holly
Black's Curse Workers Series 3. Embodying the Postmetropolis in Catherine
Fisher's Incarceron and Sapphique Part II: Society and Environment:
Building a Better World 4. Hope in Dark Times: Climate Change and the World
Risk Society in Saci Lloyd's The Carbon Diaries 2015 and 2017 5. Educating
Desire, Choosing Justice? Susan Beth Pfeffer's Last Survivors Series and
Julie Bertagna's Exodus 6. On the Brink: The Role of Young Adult Culture in
Environmental Degradation Part III: Radical or Conservative? Polemics of
the Future 7. "The Dandelion in the Spring": Utopia as Romance in Suzanne
Collins's The Hunger Games Trilogy 8. The Future is Pale: Race in
Contemporary Young Adult Dystopian Novels 9. Technology and Models of
Literacy in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction Part IV: Biotechnologies of the
Self: Humanity in a Posthuman Age 10. Dystopian Sacrifice, Scapegoats, and
Neal Shusterman's Unwind 11. The Soul of the Clone: Coming of Age as a
Posthuman in Nancy Farmer's The House of the Scorpion 12. Parables for the
Postmodern, Post-9.11, and Posthuman World: Carrie Ryan's Forest of Hands
and Teeth Books, M. T. Anderson's Feed, and Mary E. Pearson's The Adoration
of Jenna Fox