Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction. Eds Sara K. Day, Miranda A. Green-Barteet and Amy L. Montz. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. 210 pages.

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-102
Author(s):  
Susan Tan
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Dystopian Fiction

Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-149
Author(s):  
Balaka Basu
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Dystopian Fiction

scholarly journals New Futures, same old Fear: Gender-based Violence and Victim Coping in Contemporary Young Adult Dystopian Fiction

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 47-66
Author(s):  
Andrea Burgos-Mascarell
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Sexual Assaults ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Dystopian Fiction ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Universe

The ability of dystopian fiction to offer critical views of futures riddled with the devastating consequences of today’s failures is pervasive also in its literary subgenre targeting young readers. While scholarship on these novels is extensive, the prevalence of sexual assaults in this subgenre requires attention. This study offers an introductory analysis of two contemporary young adult dystopian trilogies, Veronica Roth’s Divergent (2011-2013) and Beth Revis’ Across the Universe (2011-2013), with a focus on the sexual assaults the protagonists endure. The discussion draws on trauma and sexual abuse research to ascertain how and if these future societies and heroines challenge traditional representations of this crime. 

Imagining Dystopian Futures in Young Adult Fiction

2019 ◽  
pp. 117-132
Author(s):  
Lizzie Seal ◽  
Maggie O’Neill
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Speculative Fiction ◽  
Young Adult Fiction ◽  
Hunger Games ◽  
Dystopian Fiction ◽  
The Hunger Games

This chapter discusses how it is notable that ‘speculative fiction’ – fiction that creates alternative worlds – frequently addresses themes of deviance, transgression and ordering. It identifies themes of surveillance and spectacle; hyperreality and virtual reality; memory and the suppression of history; and hierarchy and difference in dystopian fiction aimed at young adults – The Hunger Games (Collins, 2008), The Maze Runner (Dashner, 2009), Divergent (Roth, 2011) and Red Rising (Brown, 2014). The chapter explores the role of this fiction in cultural imaginings of social control, repression and resistance, and argues for greater criminological attention to novels, including bestselling fiction.

scholarly journals "I Have a Kind of Power I Never Knew I Possessed": Surveillance, Agency, and the Possibility of Resistance in YA Dystopian Fiction

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean P. Connors
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Power Systems ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Hunger Games ◽  
Dystopian Fiction ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Teachers And Students

Drawing on Foucault’s examination of the gaze as a disciplinary mechanism, and de Certeau’s discussion of how people use tactics to resist oppressive power systems, this article advocates reading the gaze in young adult dystopian fiction. To illustrate the complex readings that doing so makes possible, the author examines three young adult dystopias—M. T. Anderson’s Feed, Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games trilogy, and Corey Doctorow’s Little Brother—to demonstrate how they depict adolescents as having varying degrees of agency to resist the gaze. To conclude, the author discusses the implications for teachers and students of reading the gaze in young adult literature.

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