Jennifer Harrison

Posthumanist Readings in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction (eBook, PDF)

Negotiating the Nature/Culture Divide

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978757103
• Artikelnr.: 74848207

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Harrison is instructor of English at East Stroudsburg University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Young Adult Dystopia and the Posthuman Perspective
Chapter 1: Carrie Ryan's Forest of Hands and Teeth: Sex, Infection and
Hopelessness
Chapter 2: Lois Lowry's The Giver: Biotechnology, Wilderness, and
Government
Chapter 3: Patrick Ness's Chaos Walking Trilogy: Language and the Non-Human
Other
Chapter 4: Neal Shusterman's Unwind: Posthuman Recycling and the Death of
the Hero
Chapter 5: Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines Series: Posthumanism, Evolution,
Apocalypse, and Time
Chapter 6: Adam Rapp's Decelerate Blue: Solarpunk, Consumerism, and the
Posthumanist Future
Conclusion: Young Adult Dystopia and the Posthuman Perspective