Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction

About the author

Meghan Gilbert-Hickey is assistant professor of English at Guttman Community College, a part of the City University of New York (CUNY). Her recent and forthcoming publications focus on intersectionality in contemporary popular literature and culture. Her work has appeared in South Central Review and Red Feather: an International Journal of Children in Popular Culture, and she has also edited a special issue of South Central Review that unpacks the successes and the limitations of the #MeToo movement.

Miranda A. Green-Barteet is associate professor in the Department of Women's Studies and Department of English and Writing at University of Western Ontario. She is coeditor of Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction, Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond, and Race in Young Adult and Speculative Fiction. Her work has appeared in Canadian Review of American Studies, South Central Review, and the Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers.

Summary

Offers a sustained analysis of race and representation in young adult speculative fiction (YASF). The collection considers how characters of colour are represented in YASF, how they participate in speculative worlds, how race affects or influences the structures of speculative worlds, and how race and racial ideologies are implicated in YASF.

Product details

• Authors: Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Meghan Green-Barteet Gilbert-Hickey
• Assisted by: Meghan Gilbert-Hickey (Editor), Miranda A Green-Barteet (Editor), Miranda A. Green-Barteet (Editor)
• Publisher: University of mississippi pres
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781496833815
• ISBN: 978-1-4968-3381-5
• No. of pages: 253
• Series: Children's Literature Association Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures