Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (687 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1138247685 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. 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. 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 compet
Montz is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana, USA. Sara K. . 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. Day is Assistant Professor of English at Southern Arkansas University, USA; Miranda A
"Why the YA fascination with dystopia?" according to K Cummings Pipes. I hope to post a more extensive review later. At this time, those wishing to see and sample the book need to be looking at the listing for the Kindle edition. The print version offers a standard library binding and lovely, heavy white pages; this book is a quality edition from Ashgate. I have read the introduction and the first two chapters and, seeing no other reviews as yet, I offer these comments hoping to help others decide whe
'Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction is an exciting addition to the increasingly intersecting interests of gender studies, YA literature, and dystopia. Female Rebellion provides a noteworthy and substantial critical resource for YA dystopian fiction in particular and YA fiction in general.' Rocky Mountain Review ' all of the essays in the collection draw on contemporary scholarship in the field of young adult literature and offer excellent insight into what it means to be a rebellious teen girl in the dystopi