| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Children and youth in popular culture |
| Contents |
Introduction: young adult dystopia and the posthuman perspective -- Carrie Ryan's Forest of hands and teeth: sex, infection and hopelessness -- Lois Lowry's The giver: biotechnology, wilderness, and government -- Patrick Ness's Chaos walking trilogy: language and the non-human other -- Neal Shusterman's Unwind: posthuman recycling and the death of the hero -- Philip Reeve's Mortal engines series: posthumanism, evolution, apocalypse, and time -- Adam Rapp's Decelerate blue: solarpunk, consumerism, and the posthumanist future -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Young adult fiction, American -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Dystopias in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Dystopias in literature.
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Young adult fiction, American.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019012971 |
| ISBN |
9781498573368 |
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1498573363 |
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