Justice in young adult speculative fiction : a cognitive reading / by Marek C. Oziewicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oziewicz, Marek.

Series:

Children's literature and culture ; 33.

Children's literature and culture ; 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young adult fiction--History and criticism.

Young adult fiction.

Speculative fiction--History and criticism.

Speculative fiction.

Justice in literature.

Fantasy fiction--History and criticism.

Fantasy fiction.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 257 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2015.

Summary:

This book is the first to offer a justice-focused cognitive reading of modern YA speculative fiction in its narrative and filmic forms. It links the expansion of YA speculative fiction in the twentieth century with the emergence of human and civil rights movements, with the communitarian revolution in conceptualizations of justice, and with spectacular advances in cognitive sciences as applied to the examination of narrative fiction. Oziewicz argues that complex ideas such as justice are processed by the human mind as cognitive scripts; that scripts, when narrated, take the form of multiple indexable stories; and that YA speculative fiction is currently the largest conceptual testing ground in the forging of justice consciousness for the twenty-first-century world. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Toward Modern Justice Consciousness: An Idiosyncratic History of Justice with a Note on the Rise of Young People's Literature 22

2 How We Know What We Know: Justice Scripts in Literary and Filmic Narratives 53

3 The World Is Not Fair: Poetic Justice Scripts 85

4 Find Them and Kill Them: Retributive Justice Scripts 114

5 No Future without Forgiveness: Restorative Justice Scripts 141

6 Humans Are Animals Too: Environmental Justice Scripts 168

7 We All Have a Dream: Social Justice Scripts 197

8 Against Unseen Exploitation: Global Justice Scripts 225.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138809437

1138809438

OCLC:

891611663