Posthumanist Readings in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction - Negotiating the Nature/culture Divide

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.

List of contents

Introduction: Young Adult Dystopia and the Posthuman Perspective

Chapter 1: Carrie Ryan's Forest of Hands and Teeth: Sex, Infection and Hopelessness

Chapter 2: Lois Lowry's The Giver: Biotechnology, Wilderness, and Government

Chapter 3: Patrick Ness's Chaos Walking Trilogy: Language and the Non-Human Other

Chapter 4: Neal Shusterman's Unwind: Posthuman Recycling and the Death of the Hero

Chapter 5: Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines Series: Posthumanism, Evolution, Apocalypse, and Time

Chapter 6: Adam Rapp's Decelerate Blue: Solarpunk, Consumerism, and the Posthumanist Future

Conclusion: Young Adult Dystopia and the Posthuman Perspective

About the author

Jennifer Harrison is instructor of English at East Stroudsburg University.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Harrison
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781498573351
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7335-1
• No. of pages: 146
• Series: Children and Youth in Popular; Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; NATURE / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Dystopian, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, natural history, General fiction (Children's / Teenage), Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Literature: history and criticism, Children's & teenage literature studies, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general