Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction

Herausgeber: Day, Sara K; Montz, Amy L; Green-Barteet, Miranda A

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on dystopian novels featuring a female protagonist, this collection explores the liminal nature of a young woman contending with societal and governmental threats at the same time that she is navigating the treacherous waters of young adulthood. Essays on writers that include Libba Bray, Scott Westerfeld, Tahereh Mafi, Veronica Roth, Ally Condie, and Suzanne Collins show how this rebellious figure interrogates the competing constructions of adolescent womanhood in late-twentieth- and early twenty-first-century culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9781138247680
• ISBN-10: 1138247685
• Artikelnr.: 49134684

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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;