Race in young adult speculative fiction /
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[2021]
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Table of 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
- (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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- 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