African American adolescent female heroes : the twenty-first-century young adult neo-slave narrative /

African American adolescent female heroes : the twenty-first-century young adult neo-slave narrative /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marotta, Melanie A. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2023.
Series:Children's Literature Association series.
Subjects:
Slavery in literature.
Young adult literature, American.
African American women in literature.
African American women heroes.
African American young adults > Books and reading.
Afrofuturism.
Science fiction, American > History and criticism.
Speculative fiction, American > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments and dedication
  • Introduction: visibility and inclusivity
  • Chapter 1. Sherri L. Smith's "Orleans" and Karen Sandler's "Tankborn": the female leader, the neo-slave, and twenty-first-century young adult Afrofuturism
  • Chapter 2. The safety of space in Nnedi Okorafor's "The book of Phoenix" and "Binti"
  • Chapter 3. Afrohorror and the gendered narrator: progression and regression of the adolescent female activist character in the "Devil's wake" series and the "Parables" series
  • Chapter 4. The biracial female protagonist, trauma, and memory in A. J. Hartley's "Steeplejack"
  • Chapter 5. Self-image and narration in the young adult steampunk novels "The black god's drums" and the "Dread nation" series
  • Notes
  • Works cited
  • Index.