1st Edition
Justice in Young Adult Speculative Fiction A Cognitive Reading
Introduction 1. The Big Bang of Justice: The Origins of Modern Justice Consciousness 2. Children’s and Young Adult Speculative Fiction: Justice Themes and Justice Scripts 3. The World Is Not Fair: the Unachievable Justice Script 4. Find Them and Kill Them: the Retributive Justice Script 5. No Future Without Forgiveness: the Restorative Justice Script 6. Humans Are Animals Too: the Environmental Justice Script 7. We All Have a Dream: the Social Justice Script 8. Against Unseen Exploitation: the Global Justice Script Conclusion
Biography
Marek C. Oziewicz
"Here, social justice takes its place among other adaptations of justice (poetic, retributive, restorative, environmental, global) as the author traces historical understandings of justice in parallel with the development of science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative YA fiction...Oziewicz draws on his own experience growing up in Poland under a repressive communist government and on his impressively broad knowledge of young adult literature, film, and video games to trace how justice itself has been conceived since ancient times and to explain what cognitive science reveals about how narrative “scripts” create understanding...Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." - C. A. Bily, Macomb Community College, CHOICE
