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Race in literature.
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Young adult fiction -- History and criticism.
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Speculative fiction -- History and criticism.
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Descript |
1 online resource (273 pages) |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
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Includes index. |
Contents |
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 |
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(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 |
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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 |
Alt author |
Gilbert-Hickey, Meghan, editor.
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Green-Barteet, Miranda A., editor.
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ISBN |
9781496833860 (electronic bk.) |
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1496833864 (electronic bk.) |
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1496833821 |
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9781496833822 |
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1496833813 |
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9781496833815 |
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