Journal articles: 'Dystopian Fiction - Young Adult'

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Basu, Balaka. "Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction." Contemporary Women's Writing 10, no. 1 (July 23, 2015): 147–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpv013.

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Connors, Sean P. ""I Have a Kind of Power I Never Knew I Possessed": Surveillance, Agency, and the Possibility of Resistance in YA Dystopian Fiction." Study and Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature 2, no. 2 (September 20, 2017): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.15763/issn.2376-5275.2017.3.1.1-23.

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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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Connors, Sean P. "Engaging High School Students in Interrogating Neoliberalism in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction." High School Journal 104, no. 2 (2021): 84–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hsj.2021.0000.

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Hanssen, Jessica Allen. "How I Live Now: The Project of Sustainability in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction." Studier i Pædagogisk Filosofi 6, no. 2 (April 12, 2018): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/spf.v6i2.102084.

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Green-Barteet, Miranda A., and Jill Coste. "Non-normative Bodies, Queer Identities." Girlhood Studies 12, no. 1 (March 1, 2019): 82–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2019.120108.

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In this article we consider the absence of queer female protagonists in dystopian Young Adult (YA) fiction and examine how texts with queer protagonists rely on heteronormative frameworks. Often seen as progressive, dystopian YA fiction features rebellious teen girls resisting the restrictive norms of their societies, but it frequently sidelines queerness in favor of heteronormative romance for its predominantly white, able-bodied protagonists. We analyze The Scorpion Rules (2015) and Love in the Time of Global Warming (2013), both of which feature queer girl protagonists, and conclude that these texts ultimately marginalize that queerness. While they offer readers queer female protagonists, they also equate queerness with non-normative bodies and reaffirm heteronormativity. The rebellion of both protagonists effectively distances them from the queer agency they have developed throughout the narratives.

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Abdeen, Azza Abdel Fattah Abdeen. "A Corpus Stylistic Analysis of Some Lexical and Semantic Devices in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction." Egyptian Journal of English Language and Literature Studies 9, no. 1 (December 1, 2018): 67–126. http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/ejels.2018.134069.

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Wohlmann, Anita, and Ruth Steinberg. "Rewinding Frankenstein and the body-machine: organ transplantation in the dystopian young adult fiction seriesUnwind." Medical Humanities 42, no. 4 (August 1, 2016): e26-e30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2016-010918.

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Gooding, Richard. "Posthumanist Readings in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction: Negotiating the Nature/Culture Divide by Jennifer Harrison." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 45, no. 2 (2020): 186–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/chq.2020.0023.

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Marlina, Leni. "Dystopian World and Young Adults in M. T. Anderson’s Feed Science Fiction." IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science 19, no. 1 (2014): 67–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.9790/0837-19176773.

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Alexander, Jonathan, and Rebecca Black. "The Darker Side of the Sorting Hat: Representations of Educational Testing in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction." Children's Literature 43, no. 1 (2015): 208–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/chl.2015.0019.

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Coste, Jill. "The Order and the Other: Young Adult Dystopian Literature and Science Fiction by Joseph W. Campbell." Children's Literature 49, no. 1 (2021): 271–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/chl.2021.0019.

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Walsh, Clare. "From `Capping' to Intercision: Metaphors/Metonyms of Mind Control in the Young Adult Fiction of John Christopher and Philip Pullman." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 12, no. 3 (August 2003): 233–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09639470030123004.

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This article undertakes a comparative analysis of two trilogies written for a young adult readership: the Tripods trilogy by John Christopher (1967-8) and the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman (1995-2000). Both trilogies can be described as science fiction/fantasy Bildungsromans which centre on attempts by adults or surrogate adult figures to thwart the rite of passage from childhood to adulthood for their young protagonists. Contrary to what one might expect, the figurative language used in the texts which comprise the trilogies comes relatively high on Goatly's cline of 'metaphoricity' (Goatly, 1997: 11), partly because of the incorporation of an `open' address in Pullman's case and partly because of the wide-ranging intertextual allusions employed by both writers. In addition, I argue that in common with other dystopian architexts both trilogies exhibit a marked tendency to blur the boundaries between the metaphorical, the metonymic and the literal and, more specifically, that the `cognitive estrangement' intrinsic to the genre of sf leads readers to interpret metaphorically objects and processes that are literal in the world(s) of the text. Finally, I conclude with the view that both Christopher and Pullman offer empowering subject positions to their young protagonists and, by extension, to their young adult readers, with the clear aim of encouraging them to move beyond the circumscribed world of childhood inexperience.

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Z. Alkhafaji, Mayada, and Ansam Yaroub. "HUMAN LAB RATS IN JAMES DASHNER’S THE MAZE RUNNER SERIES (2009 – 2011): HISTORICAL REFERENCES, PRESENT ALLUSIONS, AND DYSTOPIAN FUTURE." Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews 7, no. 5 (November 5, 2019): 1121–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2019.75148.

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Purpose: This study aims to shed the light on allusions to real lab rats in Dashner’s trilogy: The Maze Runner (2009), The Scorch Trails (2010), and The Death Cure (2011). It also aims to trace the historical documents and chronicles essential to reveal the justifications behind the vague political and scientific crimes. Methodology: The researchers have used the literary analytical approach to study and analyze selected prominent aspects from each novel; such as the concept of lab rats and genocide crimes in The Maze Runner; references to weather experiments, the climate change conspiracy, gas chambers, and the Holocaust in The Scorch Trails; and finally, the man-made diseases and biological weapons in The Death Cure. Results: The outcomes confirm the necessity of knowing history whether bright or dark as a keyword to understand the present and predict the future. Also, Dashner has based The Maze Runners series on historical references as well as present-day vital scientific issues to predict a catastrophic future if a decision is not made. Young adult is chosen to lead the revolution against human abusing crimes and make a change. Applications: To develop a high understanding of young adult fiction, the researchers recommend those who are interested in literature with the necessity to apply this study to other post-apocalyptic, survival, adventure, science and dystopian series fictions, movies adaptations of related books, and related video games series that addressing young adults’ mind in order to diagnose any dilemma . Novelty/Originality: Hence, this study makes a difference in the sense of exposing the genocide crimes committed by the name of science embedded in Dashner's The Maze Runners series by tracing the historical, social, political, and scientific justifications regarding the concept of human lab rats as one of the worst human abusing experiences still used by tyrant regimes till now in ethnic and sectarian purification.

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Cappella, David. "Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers ed. by Balaka Basu." Children's Literature 43, no. 1 (2015): 312–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/chl.2015.0024.

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Ford, Jennifer. "Taboo Teens and Ancient Adults: Overpopulation Motifs in Fictional Literature for Children and Young People." Oxford Literary Review 38, no. 1 (July 2016): 27–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/olr.2016.0178.

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Literature for children and young people is uniquely positioned in terms of intended readership and literary genres such as the young adult dystopian novel to scrutinise intergenerational and human fertility issues associated with overpopulation. However, fictional texts that explore overpopulation have a narrative form that is unstable and unreliable due to prevailing conventions of subjectivity and optimism in children's and young adult literature. Derrida's last interview, Learning to Live, is pertinent to an understanding of motifs of overpopulation in literature for children and young people. Derrida's recognition of the ‘rights’ of future and present generations, and of the temporal intergenerational problems between parent as child, and child as parent, are explored in recent fictional texts for children and young people.

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Ni, Zhange. "Religion and the Arts in The Hunger Games." Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and the Arts 4, no. 1 (December 4, 2020): 1–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24688878-12340011.

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Abstract In this selective overview of scholarship generated by The Hunger Games—the young adult dystopian fiction and film series which has won popular and critical acclaim—Zhange Ni showcases various investigations into the entanglement of religion and the arts in the new millennium. Ni introduces theories, methods, and the latest developments in the study of religion in relation to state politics, audio/visual art, material culture, reality TV, and transmedia projects, whilst also reading The Hunger Games as a story that explores the variety, complexity, and ambiguity of enchantment. In popular texts such as The Hunger Games, religion and art—both broadly construed, that is, beyond conventional boundaries—converge in creating an enchantment that makes life more bearable and effects change in the world.

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Ventura, Abbie. "Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction ed. by Sara K. Day, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, and Amy L. Montz." Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature 53, no. 2 (2015): 82–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2015.0029.

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Mootz, Kaylee Jangula. "Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction ed. by Sara K. Day, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, and Amy L. Montz." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 40, no. 2 (2015): 208–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/chq.2015.0019.

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Gadowski, Robert. "The Evantropian Project: Revitalising Critical Approaches to Young Adult Literature." Dzieciństwo. Literatura i Kultura 2, no. 2 (December 31, 2020): 182–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.32798/dlk.622.

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Anna Bugajska’s recent book Engineering Youth: The Evantropian Project in Young Adult Dystopias (2019) is an important and thought-provoking inquiry into the field of young adult literary criticism. While for the average reader, young adult narratives may be associated with juvenile tales created with an intent to provide escapist entertainment, a true connoisseur of youth literature is well aware of an immense didactic potential of this genre. Bugajska certainly belongs to the latter category as she diligently engages with young adult dystopias to highlight the immense critical power of these texts. In the following review article, the author of the paper is going to offer a brief commentary on the critical perspective that Bugajska employs to explore the notion of evantropia. The first section of this review discusses Bugajska’s volume as a part of utopian intellectual tradition, the second section postulates that ideas presented in Engineering Youth enrich literary criticism in the field of speculative fiction and children’s and young adult literature, the third section briefly discusses the layout of the volume and the content of each chapter, the fourth section presents an overview of selected core ideas that Bugajska presents in her work and in the last section the author of the paper offers his final thoughts on Engineering Youth.

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Gadowski, Robert. "Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers ed. by Balaka Basu, Katherine R. Broad, Carrie Hintz." Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature 53, no. 3 (2015): 87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2015.0064.

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Tan, Susan. "Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers ed. by Balaka Basu, Katherine R. Broad, Carrie Hintz." Lion and the Unicorn 38, no. 2 (2014): 234–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/uni.2014.0014.

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Miskec, Jennifer M. "Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers ed. by Carrie Hintz, Balaka Basu, Katherine R. Broad." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 39, no. 3 (2014): 442–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/chq.2014.0044.

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Tan, Susan. "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." International Research in Children's Literature 8, no. 1 (July 2015): 100–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2015.0156.

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Guanio-Uluru, Lykke. "Education for Sustainability: Developing Ecocritical Literature Circles in the Student Teacher Classroom." Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education 10, no. 1 (June 1, 2019): 5–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/dcse-2019-0002.

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Abstract How can student-teachers learn efficient ways to encourage sustainability thinking in their pupils and fulfil the competence aims on sustainability outlined in national subject curriculums as a response to UNESCO’s programme on Education for Sustainable Development, ESD? The core hypothesis of this project was that tailored literature circles, focused on the ecocritical aspects of literary texts, would make student-teachers aware of how they can use literature as a process to reflect on sustainability. This would enable them to incorporate sustainability thinking into their own teaching practices. The project’s tailoring of the standard literature circle roles (Daniels 1994, 2002, 2006) involved the design of reading roles that highlighted ecocritical and generic aspects of the studied texts and the application of an analytical matrix developed by literary scholars researching the representation of nature in children’s and young adult literature. This article presents the results of a small-scale study testing the ecocritical literature circles approach and its impact on student-teachers’ conception of their own ability to meet the competence aims on sustainability in their teaching. The intervention included lectures on ecocriticism and on the posthuman debate prior to the literature circles and student feedback through pre- and post-circle questionnaires. It was implemented in the teacher-training classroom, working with dystopian science fiction texts for young adults. These texts present the reader with visions of the future. The study showed that the ecocritical literature circles, and in particular the ecocritical reading roles, were considered useful by the participating student-teachers. The participants also reported a significant increase in confidence relative to their own ability to discuss sustainability issues with their pupils.

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Webb, Jean. "Ghosts, murder and mutation: The portrayal of pandemics in children’s and YA fiction." Book 2.0 11, no. 1 (August 1, 2021): 65–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/btwo_00044_1.

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The coronavirus pandemic has stimulated a number of texts, which are aimed at helping children to cope with situations alien to them. For example, the picture book Staying Home by Sally Nichols and Vivienne Schwarz (2020) deals with the conditions of lockdown and family isolation, whilst Piperpotamus by Annis Watts endeavours to explain COVID-19. This pandemic is not the only such event in history. The Black Death swept across Europe (1347–51) followed by the Spanish flu pandemic (1918–20). Both of these have stimulated historical fiction for older children and Young Adults and have done so by employing differing literary approaches. For instance, Cat Winters’ In the Shadow of Blackbirds (2013) incorporates a ghost story set against the contexts of séances and spirit photographers as the bereaved hope to gain comfort, whilst Charles Todd’s An Unmarked Grave (2012) is a murder mystery. Dystopian science fiction has also been employed to examine the equivalent circumstances of such pandemics. The plague in Gone (2008–14) by Michael Grant follows a nuclear disaster, which has produced a world where only those under fifteen have survived beneath a dome created by a young autistic child at the point of the explosion. Unforeseen forces have erupted resulting in mutation where individuals have supernatural powers taking them into a posthuman state. Their world is later blighted by plague and the children have to deal with remaking their lives and their society without the help of adults. This article will consider the various ways that such texts have approached these world-changing disasters and the common themes, which emerge to give our current generation of children ways of thinking about their present and their future.

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Mallan, Kerry. "Dystopian Fiction for Young People: Instructive Tales of Resilience." Psychoanalytic Inquiry 37, no. 1 (January 2, 2017): 16–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2017.1250586.

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MacRae, Cathi Dunn. "Presenting Young Adult Fantasy Fiction." English Journal 88, no. 3 (January 1999): 115. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/821601.

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White, Donna R. "Young Adult Science Fiction (review)." Lion and the Unicorn 24, no. 3 (2000): 473–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/uni.2000.0036.

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Belbin, David. "What is young adult fiction?" English in Education 45, no. 2 (June 2011): 132–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-8845.2011.01094.x.

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Rana, Ujina, and Hari Adhikari. "PORTRAYAL OF YOUNG ADULTS IN DYSTOPIAN YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE—HUNGER GAMES TRILOGY." PEOPLE: International Journal of Social Sciences 1, no. 1 (May 31, 2017): 213–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.20319/pijss.2015.s11.213226.

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Harrison, Jennifer. "Why Young Adult Speculative Fiction Matters." Libri et Liberi 7, no. 1 (September 11, 2018): 172–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.21066/carcl.libri.2018-07(01).0009.

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Ferreira, Eliane Aparecida Galvão Ribeiro, and Guilherme Magri da Rocha. "Nanook: He Is Coming: A dystopian young adult novel from Brazil1." Book 2.0 11, no. 1 (August 1, 2021): 51–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/btwo_00043_1.

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This article discusses Nanook: ele está chegando (‘Nanook: He Is Coming’) (2016), written by Brazilian author Gustavo Bernardo, a Brazilian dystopian apocalyptic young adult (YA) novel influenced by an Inuit legend that mixes science with mysticism and human subjectivity. In this book, 15-year-old Bernardo emerges as a harbinger of events that will occur in the narrative, when he affirms that ‘Nanook is coming’. From that point onwards, climatic and supernatural events happen, which affect the whole world, with consequences for Ouro Preto, the former capital of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, where the story takes place. These consequences include snowfalls, increasingly intense cold and the disappearance of some animals. Nanook: He Is Coming was selected by the Brazilian National Textbook Program (PNLD – Programa Nacional do Livro Didático) for high school students. This programme is designed to evaluate didactic, pedagogical and literary works and make them available for free to Brazilian students what are studying at public schools. This article concludes with an analysis of the text, using critical tools, which include Reception Theory to examine the communicability of the novel with its implicit reader, the dialogical relationship with that reader and the novel’s language, stylistic characteristics, the constitution of its narrative operators and its ideological discourse.

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Jerald, Aysha. "Exploring the Relationship between Dystopian Literature and the Activism of Generation Z Young Adults." American Journal of Undergraduate Research 16, no. 4 (March 15, 2020): 81–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.33697/ajur.2020.009.

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Some recent research has posited that the independent and revolutionary traits of Generation Z can be traced to the circumstances of their births, specifically the 9/11 attacks and the Great Recession. While there has been research examining the effect of these events on the type of behavior Generation Z exhibits towards political and societal issues, there has been little research that examines the literary culture in which they grew up. Did popular dystopian works such as Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (2009), Divergent by Veronica Roth (2011), and The Maze Runner by James Dashner (2009) have an impact on their political identities and behaviors? This paper examines that question by using a mixed method approach: a public questionnaire, thirteen in-depth interviews with a select group of Generation Z students from the University of Georgia, and direct content analyses of the key works under consideration. This study argues that the relationship between dystopian literature and young adult activism may offer insight into the ways literature can be used as a revolutionary tool. This study also hopes to add to the literature exploring the characteristics of Generation Z and the significance dystopian literature may have not only on a young adult’s thoughts but also their actions. KEYWORDS: Dystopian Literature; Dystopian Literary Media; Generation Z; Youth Activism; Literary Influence; Activist Typology; Aspects of Literary Response: A New Questionnaire; College Students; Divergent; Catching Fire; The Maze Runner; Literary Culture, The Hunger Games

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Rochelle, Warren. "Young Adult Science Fiction (review)." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 25, no. 4 (2000): 223–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/chq.0.1323.

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Mertz, Maia Pank. "Enhancing literary understandings through young adult fiction." Publishing Research Quarterly 8, no. 1 (March 1992): 23–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02680518.

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Cummins, Amy. "Dreamers: Living Undocumented in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction." Theory in Action 13, no. 2 (April 30, 2020): 80–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.3798/tia.1937-0237.2023.

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Markland, Anah-Jayne. "“Always Becoming”: Posthuman Subjectivity in Young Adult Fiction." Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 12, no. 1 (2020): 208–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jeu.2020.0014.

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Pavliuk, Kh T. "Conceptual metaphor in English young-adult dystopian novel “The Maze Runner” by James Dashner." Science and Education a New Dimension VI(167), no. 50 (June 29, 2018): 34–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.31174/send-ph2018-167vi50-08.

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Russo, Stephanie. "Contemporary Girlhood and Anne Boleyn in Young Adult Fiction." Girlhood Studies 13, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 17–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2020.130103.

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Anne Boleyn has been narrativized in Young Adult (YA) historical fiction since the nineteenth century. Since the popular Showtime series The Tudors (2007–2010) aired, teenage girls have shown increased interest in the story of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second and most infamous queen. This construction of Boleyn suggests that she was both celebrated and punished for her proto-feminist agency and forthright sexuality. A new subgenre of Boleyn historical fiction has also recently emerged—YA novels in which her story is rewritten as a contemporary high school drama. In this article, I consider several YA novels about Anne Boleyn in order to explore the relevance to contemporary teenage girls of a woman who lived and died 500 years ago.

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Athanasiou-Krikelis, Lissi. "Representing Turks in Greek Children's and Young Adult Fiction." International Research in Children's Literature 13, no. 1 (July 2020): 76–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2020.0329.

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What do Greek children learn about the Turk-Other from children's literature, and how does this image of the enemy inform their national Self? Has the representation of the Turk-Other remained static or do recent publications demonstrate a change in its portrayal? This article explores such questions in the context of contemporary Greek texts for children and young adults. The image of the Turk-soldier has been and remains overwhelmingly negative. The Turk who represents the Ottoman Empire is the vicious victimiser and ruthless conqueror. The Turk-friend, however, features a more complex conglomeration of attributes, some degrading and others elevating. Fictional histories, that is narratives with a strong inclination towards historical accuracy, are less favourable to the Turk-Other, aiming to preserve a homogenised version of the nation and to justify the deeds of war heroes. These observations persist throughout the twentieth century and do not deviate from the patterns found in adult literature. Nonetheless, in more recent publications the image of the Turk-Other is slightly more positive due to two related factors: the foregrounding of the weaknesses of the national Self and the problematising of the historical representation. By juxtaposing negative portrayals of both Turkish and Greek behaviours and by questioning historical truisms, the image of the Turk is being re-humanised.

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Keys, Wendy, Elizabeth Marshall, and Barbara Pini. "Representations of rural lesbian lives in young adult fiction." Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 38, no. 3 (April 3, 2017): 354–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2017.1306981.

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Ball, Jonathan. "Young Adult Science Fiction as a Socially Conservative Genre." Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 3, no. 2 (2011): 162–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jeu.2011.0016.

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Nelson, Margaret K. "The Presentation of Donor Conception in Young Adult Fiction." Journal of Family Issues 41, no. 1 (August 14, 2019): 33–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513x19868751.

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Using a thematic analysis, this study examines the presentation of donor conception in 30 books of fiction written for young adults. Most of the donor-conceived characters in these books live in single mother families, the majority are girls, and most have some kind of status as outsiders. Donor conception is presented differently depending on the type of family in which the teen lives. Children living with single mothers are most often endangered. Children living with lesbian-couple parents are most often marked as outsiders. Among children living with heterosexual-couple parents, donor conception is often presented as a significant issue that can unsettle family dynamics and lead to a search for the donor or donor siblings.

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Setyorini, Ari, and Serwana Idris. "The Practice of Ideological State Apparatuses in Lois Lowry’s The Giver." NOBEL: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching 8, no. 2 (September 3, 2017): 83–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.15642/nobel.2017.8.2.83-93.

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This article attempts to portray how a contemporary young adult literature entitled The Giver (Lowry, 1993) illustrates the operation of state apparatus in a dystopian setting of time and place. Applying Althusser’s theory of state apparatuses, the study particularly focuses on a prominent issue of Ideological State Apparatuses (ISA) which is operated within the The Giver’s society. Descriptive qualitative research is applied to interpret the data in the novel. The result of this study reveals that the novel draws ISA as a tool to control and to maintain the dominance in this dystopian community. The ISA operates through training system, particular rule of language used by the community, media censorship, and family’s role.

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Azizah, Rofi’atul, and Sufi Ikrima Sa'adah. "An Ecocritical Analysis of Young Adult Dystopian Novel in Veronica Rossi’s Under The Never Sky." NOBEL: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching 8, no. 1 (April 3, 2017): 22–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.15642/nobel.2017.8.1.22-34.

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This study aims to describe the representation of nature and the interaction of Aria and Peregrine as main characters with nature. Descriptive qualitative method is used by applying Garrad’s theory of ecocriticism and Basu’s perspective on dystopian literature. The results of this study are: first, pastoral is represented by the distiction of the town and country. In the novel town is reprsented as Reverie and country as Death Shop. Second,Wilderness is represented by the wilderness of society inthe Reverie and Death Shop and the wilderness of Death Shop’s land. Third, Apocalypse is represented by the portrayal of foreboding doom and human eradication in the novel. The setting of place and time is the result of natural disaster and the development of technology takes control in human’s life. The interaction of Aria and Peregrine shows human coexist with nature, human takes experience, learns knowledge and makes relation with nature.

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Dziekan, Marek M. "Egypt: Revolution 2011/2025. Dystopia, Utopia, and Political Fiction in Mustafa Al-Husayni’s Novel "2025 An-Nida Al-Akhir"." International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal 21, no. 1 (June 30, 2018): 99–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1641-4233.21.07.

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The article discusses the novel 2025. An-Nida al-Akhir [2025. The Last Call] written by a young Egyptian journalist and writer born in 1982 – Mustafa al-Husayni. The novel was published in early 2011, between the fall of Zayn al-Abidin Ibn Ali in Tunisia and of Husni Mubarak in Egypt. It describes a revolution against the regime of Jamal al-Mubarak, son of Husni, spurred by a group of young Egyptians. The story takes place in 2025 and anticipates the development of the political situation in Egypt and the Middle East between 2011 and 2025 in a utopian/dystopian manner. Alongside Utopia by Ahmad Khalid Tawfik and the poetry of Usama al-Abnubi and Abd ar-Rahman al-Abnudi, al-Husayni’s book is considered to be a forecast of the Arab Spring in Egypt.

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Bieber, Ada, and Richard Gooding. "Streams of Consciousness: The Downriver Narrative in Young Adult Fiction." International Research in Children's Literature 13, no. 1 (July 2020): 61–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2020.0328.

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This article draws on adaptation and genre theory to argue that the downriver narrative constitutes a distinct genre in literature for youth. This genre is characterised by a repertoire of narrative elements including alternations between the river as a space of reflection and refuge, social interactions that occur on land, and the social and political commentary voiced by the river travellers. These patterns appear in diverse cultural and historical contexts, as exemplified by Auguste Lazar's Jan auf der Zille [Jan on the barge] (1934/1950), Richard Scrimger's Into the Ravine (2007), and David Almond's Heaven Eyes (2000). Published in Germany, Canada, and the UK, these novels deploy episodic accounts of journeying downstream to perform a range of cultural work, including articulating discourses about citizenship and nationhood, raising critical awareness about questions of difference, and promulgating Romantic models of childhood.

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Spencer, Kerry. "Marketing and sales in the U.S. young adult fiction market." New Writing 14, no. 3 (April 10, 2017): 429–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2017.1307419.

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Smith, Louisa. "Limitations on Young Adult Fiction: An Interview with Chris Crutcher." Lion and the Unicorn 16, no. 1 (1992): 66–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/uni.0.0125.

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Schmidt, Gary D. "The Distant Mirror: Reflections on Young Adult Historical Fiction (review)." Lion and the Unicorn 31, no. 1 (2007): 67–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/uni.2007.0008.

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