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Posthumanist Readings in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction
Negotiating the Nature/Culture Divide
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2019
Summary
If there is one trend in children’s and YA literature that seems to be enjoying a steady rise in popularity, it is the expansion of the YA dystopian genre. While the genre has been lauded for its potential to expand horizons, promote critical thinking, and foster social awareness and activism, it has also come under scrutiny for its promotion of specific ideologies and its often sensationalist approach to real-world problems. In an examination of six YA dystopian texts spanning more than twenty years of development of the genre, this book explores the way in which posthumanist ideologies in particular are deployed or resisted in these texts as a means of making sense of the specific challenges which young people confront in the twenty-first century.
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Edition
1/2019
Copyright Year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-7335-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-7336-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
139
Product Type
Monograph
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Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
1 Carrie Ryan’s Forest of Hands and Teeth No access Pages 19 - 34
2 Lois Lowry’s The Giver No access Pages 35 - 50
3 Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking Trilogy No access Pages 51 - 66
4 Neal Shusterman’s Unwind No access Pages 67 - 82
5 Philip Reeve’s Mortal Engines Series No access Pages 83 - 102
6 Adam Rapp and Mike Cavallaro’s Decelerate Blue No access Pages 103 - 118
