Posthumanist Readings in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction (eBook)

Negotiating the Nature/Culture Divide

Jennifer Harrison (Autor)

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2019
146 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-7336-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores the deployment of posthumanist ideology in young adult dystopian fiction. It applies this theory to the presentation of social issues in select novels.

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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.

Autor

Jennifer Harrison is instructor of English at East Stroudsburg University.

Inhalt

Introduction: Young Adult Dystopia and the Posthuman PerspectiveChapter 1: Carrie Ryan’s Forest of Hands and Teeth: Sex, Infection and HopelessnessChapter 2: Lois Lowry’s The Giver: Biotechnology, Wilderness, and GovernmentChapter 3: Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking Trilogy: Language and the Non-Human OtherChapter 4: Neal Shusterman’s Unwind: Posthuman Recycling and the Death of the HeroChapter 5: Philip Reeve’s Mortal Engines Series: Posthumanism, Evolution, Apocalypse, and TimeChapter 6: Adam Rapp’s Decelerate Blue: Solarpunk, Consumerism, and the Posthumanist FutureConclusion: Young Adult Dystopia and the Posthuman Perspective

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Apocalypse • Biotechnology • Children’s literature • Consumerism • Dystopia • hopelessness • language • Posthuman • posthumanism • young adult literature
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-7336-3 / 1498573363
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-7336-8 / 9781498573368