Race in young adult speculative fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors:	Gilbert-Hickey, Meghan (Editor), Green-Barteet, Miranda A. (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]
Series:	Children's Literature Association series.
Subjects:	Race in literature. Young adult fiction > History and criticism. Speculative fiction > History and criticism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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
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