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Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
224 Pages
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Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Responding to the increasingly powerful presence of dystopian literature for young adults, this volume focuses on novels featuring a female protagonist who contends with societal and governmental threats at the same time that she is navigating the treacherous waters of young adulthood. The contributors relate the liminal nature of the female protagonist to liminality as a unifying feature of... Read more
Introduction: From “New Woman” to “Future Girl”: The Roots and the Rise of the Female Protagonist in Contemporary Young Adult Dystopias; Part I Reflections and Reconsiderations of Rebellious Girlhood; Chapter 1 Girl Power and Girl Activism in the Fiction of Suzanne Collins, Scott Westerfeld, and Moira Young, Sonya Sawyer Fritz; Chapter 2 “I’m beginning to know who I am”: The Rebellious Subjectivities of Katniss Everdeen and Tris Prior, Miranda A. Green-Barteet; Chapter 3 Of Scrivens and Sparks: Girl Geniuses in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction, Rachel Dean-Ruzicka; Chapter 4 Docile Bodies, Dangerous Bodies: Sexual Awakening and Social Resistance in Young Adult Dystopian Novels, Sara K. Day; Part II Forms and Signs of Rebellion; Chapter 5 Gender Rolls: Bread and Resistance in the “Hunger Games” Trilogy, Meghan Gilbert-Hickey; Chapter 6 Rebels in Dresses: Distractions of Competitive Girlhood in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction, Amy L. Montz; Chapter 7 The Three Faces of Tally Youngblood: Rebellious Identity-Changing in Scott Westerfeld’s “Uglies” Series, Mary Jeanette Moran; Chapter 8 “Perpetually waving to an unseen crowd”: Satire and Process in Beauty Queens, Bridgitte Barclay; Part III Contexts and Communities of Rebellion; Chapter 9 Rebellious Natures: The Role of Nature in Young Adult Dystopian Female Protagonists’ Awakenings and Agency, Megan McDonough, Katherine A. Wagner; Chapter 10 Real or Not Real—Katniss Everdeen Loves Peeta Melark: The Lingering Effects of Discipline in the “Hunger Games” Trilogy, June Pulliam; Chapter 11 The Incompatibility of Female Friendships and Rebellion, Ann M. M. Childs;
Biography
Sara K. Day is Assistant Professor of English at Southern Arkansas University, USA; Miranda A. Green-Barteet is joint appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research and the Department of English and Writing Studies at the University of Western Ontario, Canada; and Amy L. Montz is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana, USA.
"They create insightful and innovative scholarship that places young adult literature at the center of social and cultural conversations in the twenty-first century. The collection theorizes girlhood and dystopian fiction in new ways and offers scholars and readers a new paradigm for understanding both." -- Abbie Ventura, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Bookbird, Vol. 53, No. 2, 2015
