1st Edition
Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults Brave New Teenagers
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?: The 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 The 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: The 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 The Hunger Games Trilogy Katherine R. Broad 8. The 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. The Soul of the Clone: Coming of Age as a Posthuman in Nancy Farmer’s The 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 The Adoration of Jenna Fox Thomas J. Morrissey
Biography
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.
Winner of the Children’s Literature Association Edited Book Award
"The editors were clearly invested in creating a coherent and easily navigable collection--each article is even structured in a similar way--of thoughtful criticism of the most popular pieces of current YA dystopia fiction... there is no question that this collection is both timely and useful." -Jemmifer M. Miskec, Longwood University, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 2014
