Title: Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults
Abstract:Introduction Balaka Basu, Katherine R. Broad, and Carrie Hintz Part I: Freedom and Constraint: Adolescent Liberty and Self Determination 1. What Faction Are You In?: Pleasure of Being Sorted in Veroni...Introduction Balaka Basu, Katherine R. Broad, and Carrie Hintz Part I: Freedom and Constraint: Adolescent Liberty and Self Determination 1. What Faction Are You In?: Pleasure of Being Sorted in Veronica Roth's Divergent Balaka Basu 2. Coming of Age in Dystopia: Reading Genre in Holly Black's Curse Workers Series Emily Lauer 3. Embodying the Postmetropolis in Catherine Fisher's Incarceron and Sapphique Carissa Turner Smith 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 Carbon Diaries 2015 and 2017 Alexa Weik von Mossner 5. Educating Desire, Choosing Justice? Susan Beth Pfeffer's Last Survivors Series and Julie Bertagna's Exodus Claire P. Curtis 6. On the Brink: Role of Young Adult Culture in Environmental Degradation Elaine Ostry Part III: Radical or Conservative? Polemics of the Future 7. The Dandelion in the Spring: Utopia as Romance in Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games Trilogy Katherine R. Broad 8. Future is Pale: Race in Contemporary Young Adult Dystopian Novels Mary J. Couzelis 9. Technology and Models of Literacy in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction Kristi McDuffie Part IV: Biotechnologies of the Self: Humanity in a Posthuman Age 10. Dystopian Sacrifice, Scapegoats, and Neal Shusterman's Unwind Susan Louise Stewart 11. Soul of the Clone: Coming of Age as a Posthuman in Nancy Farmer's House of the Scorpion Erin T. Newcomb 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 Adoration of Jenna Fox Thomas J. MorrisseyRead More
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-05-02
Language: en
Type: book
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