Posthumanist Readings in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction

Negotiating the Nature/Culture Divide

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-03-04
Mått154 x 219 x 11 mm
Vikt227 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieChildren and Youth in Popular Culture
Antal sidor146
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498573375

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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

Because it entails the erasure of borders between the individual, the collective, and the environment, the posthuman state, Harrison argues, is inimical to the bildungsroman narrative that has typically underpinned YA dystopias. Harrison's contribution to scholarship on posthumanism in YA literature is significant, and it lies in providing a framework for understanding the dystopian genre as a tool of posthuman inquiry, albeit one that is still struggling to liberate itself from the conventions of the bildungsroman.