Title Female rebellion in young adult dystopian fiction / edited by Sara K. Day, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, and Amy L. Montz

Published Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource Series Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present. Contents Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; 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; 1 Girl Power and Girl Activism in the Fiction of Suzanne Collins, Scott Westerfeld, and Moira Young; 2 "I'm beginning to know who I am": The Rebellious Subjectivities of Katniss Everdeen and Tris Prior; 3 Of Scrivens and Sparks: Girl Geniuses in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction 4 Docile Bodies, Dangerous Bodies: Sexual Awakening and Social Resistance in Young Adult Dystopian Novels Part II Forms and Signs of Rebellion; 5 Gender Rolls: Bread and Resistance in the "Hunger Games" Trilogy ; 6 Rebels in Dresses: Distractions of Competitive Girlhood in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction; 7 The Three Faces of Tally Youngblood: Rebellious Identity-Changing in Scott Westerfeld's "Uglies" Series; 8 "Perpetually waving to an unseen crowd": Satire and Process in Beauty Queens; Part III Contexts and Communities of Rebellion 9 Rebellious Natures: The Role of Nature in Young Adult Dystopian Female Protagonists' Awakenings and Agency10 Real or Not Real-Katniss Everdeen Loves Peeta Melark: The Lingering Effects of Discipline in the "Hunger Games" Trilogy; 11 The Incompatibility of Female Friendships and Rebellion; Index Summary Responding to the increasingly powerful presence of dystopian literature for young adults, this volume focuses on novels featuring a female protagonist who contends with societal and governmental threats at the same time that she is navigating the treacherous waters of young adulthood. The contributors relate the liminal nature of the female protagonist to liminality as a unifying feature of dystopian literature, literature for and about young women, and cultural expectations of adolescent womanhood. Divided into three sections, the collection investigates cultural assumptions and expectations of adolescent women, considers the various means of resistance and rebellion made available to and explored by female protagonists, and examines how the adolescent female protagonist is situated with respect to the groups and environments that surround her. In a series of thought-provoking essays on a wide range of writers that includes Libba Bray, Scott Westerfeld, Tahereh Mafi, Veronica Roth, Marissa Meyer, Ally Condie, and Suzanne Collins, the collection makes a convincing case for how this rebellious figure interrogates the competing constructions of adolescent womanhood in late-twentieth and early twenty-first century culture Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Andrae, A. gnd Subject Young adult fiction, American -- History and criticism Young women in literature. Dystopias in literature. Adolescence in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Adolescence in literature Dystopias in literature Young adult fiction, American Young women in literature Englisch Anti-Utopie Weibliche Heranwachsende Motiv Litteraturvetenskap -- författare -- ungdomsböcker -- Förenta Staterna -- 2000-talet. Populärlitteratur. Dystopier -- science fiction. Motstånd. Kvinnobilden. Literary studies -- authors -- books for young people -- United States -- 21st century. Popular literature. Dystopias -- science fiction. Resistance. Image of women. Litteratur för unga vuxna. Unga kvinnor i litteraturen. Dystopier i litteraturen. Ungdomar i litteraturen. Flickor/kvinnor i litteraturen. Huvudpersoner i litteraturen. Uppror i litteraturen. Empowerment. Dystopier. Ungdomsböcker. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Day, Sara K., editor Green-Barteet, Miranda A., editor Montz, Amy L., editor ISBN 9781472431509 1472431502 9781317135937 1317135938 9781315582139 1315582139

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