Race in young adult speculative fiction / edited by Meghan Gilbert-Hickey and Miranda A. Green-Barteet.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gilbert-Hickey, Meghan, editor.

Green-Barteet, Miranda A., editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Children's Literature Association series

Children's Literature Association Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race in literature.

Young adult fiction--History and criticism.

Young adult fiction.

Speculative fiction--History and criticism.

Speculative fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages).

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover

RACE IN YOUNG ADULT SPECULATIVE FICTION

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. Defining Diversity

Blood Rules: Racial Passing and the Commodification of Difference in Victoria Aveyard's The Red Queen

The Fairy Race: Artemis Fowl, Gender, and Racial Hierarchies

Enchanting the Masses: Allegorical Diversity in Fairy-Tale Dystopias

II. Erasing Race

Neoliberalism's Erasure of Race in Young Adult Fiction: Sherri L. Smith's Orleans as Counterexample

(De)Stabilizing the Boundaries between "Us" and "Them": Racial Oppression and Racism in Two YA Dystopias Available in Swedish.

Postracial Futures and Colorblind Ideology: The Cyborg as Racialized Metaphor in Marissa Meyer's Lunar Chronicles Series

III. Lineages of Whiteness

"'I've Connected with Them": Racial Stereotyping and White Appropriation in the Chaos Walking Trilogy

Asian Masculinity, Eurasian Identity, and Whiteness in Cassandra Clare's Infernal Devices Trilogy

Eugenics and the "Purity" of Memory Erasure: The Racial Coding of Dis/ability in the Divergent Series

IV. Racialized Identities

"Vine Head," "Snake Lady," "Swamp Witch": Racialized Othering in Nnedi Okorafor's Zahrah the Windseeker

Between "Castoff" and "Half-Man": Pressuring Mixed-Race Identity in The Drowned Cities

Black Girl Magic: Bioethics and the Reinvention of the Trope of the Mad Scientist in Black YA Speculative Fiction

Fore-fronting Race and Law: Ambelin Kwaymullina's The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf and Challenging the Expectations for Idealized Young Adult Heroines

Contributors

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 05, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Gilbert-Hickey, Meghan Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction

ISBN:

9781496833860

1496833864

Publisher Number:

40030549211

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