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Kyobutungi Tumwesigye, Alice Jossy. "Young Adult Vulnerabilities in the Fiction of a Ugandan Woman Writer." Global Research in Higher Education 5, no. 1 (March 8, 2022): p22. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/grhe.v5n1p22.

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Questions of identity, power, autonomy and vulnerability carry a particular weight in cultures that have emerged from colonialism. Although few writers of fiction focus on the conflicts between African and European characters, a focus on power and marginalisation remains. One category in which this focus may be plainly seen is writing for and about young people. The study’s aim was to analyse young adult fiction written by a Ugandan female author, Barbara Kimenye to investigate this writing to find out how young adult vulnerability is depicted in literature. Although literature targeting young people in Uganda has flourished and though issues of limited representation have been scrutinised in literary studies, like gender discrimination, very limited attention has been accorded young adult representation in literature. This research analyses fiction written by a female author Barbara Kimenye to expand knowledge about the criticism of young adult representation in literature with particular focus on young adult vulnerability in an adult dominated world. The methodology was mainly qualitative research design, where a document analysis method was used to aid analysis and make critical appreciation of the fictional works. The study investigated the state of young adult characters in literature with special focus on their vulnerability.
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Geybels, Lindsey. "Shuffling Softly, Sighing Deeply: A Digital Inquiry into Representations of Older Men and Women in Literature for Different Ages." Social Sciences 12, no. 3 (February 22, 2023): 112. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci12030112.

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When gender is brought into concerns about older people, the emphasis often lies on stereotypes connected to older women, and few comparative studies have been conducted pertaining to the representation of the intersection between older age and gender in fiction. This article argues that not only children’s literature, traditionally considered to be a carrier of ideology, plays a large part in the target readership’s age socialization, but so do young adult and adult fiction. In a large corpus of 41 Dutch books written for different ages, the representation of older men and women is studied through the verbs, grammatical possessions and adjectives associated with the relevant fictional characters, which were extracted from the texts through the computational method of dependency parsing. Older adult characters featured most frequently in fiction for adults, where, more so than in the books for younger readers, they are depicted as being prone to illness, experiencing the effects of a deteriorating body and having a limited social network. In the books for children, little to no association between older adulthood and mortality was found in the data. Ageist stereotypes pertaining to both genders were found throughout the corpus. In terms of characterization, male older adults are associated more with physicality, including matters of illness and mobility, while character traits and emotions show up in a more varied manner in connection to female older characters.
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Byrnside, Abigail, and Maggie Morris Davis. "Their Worlds Felt Smaller: Rebuilding Classroom Communities in Pandemic Times." English Journal 112, no. 1 (September 1, 2022): 80–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ej202232071.

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After several semesters of isolated online learning, students needed opportunities to reconnect; reading young adult science fiction—a genre of what-ifs—helped a class of seniors discuss how identities affect relationships.
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Vallières, Amélie, and Emmanuelle Lescouet. "Dystopie et séries young adult : former l’imaginaire politique des adolescent·e·s." RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE 17, no. 1 (September 15, 2023): 82–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.51777/relief17561.

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La littérature de science-fiction se pose la question des systèmes politiques, les plaçant au cœur de ses intrigues. Des ouvrages ou séries dystopiques young adult très populaires en font le nœud central de leur narration. Cette large réception les propulse au rang d’artéfacts culturels pour toute une génération, participant plus ou moins consciemment à la construction de son imaginaire politique. Cette habitude des jeunes protagonistes de se confronter à des systèmes de pouvoir, politiques et sociétaux, de les questionner et de les aborder dans une perspective du changement possible permet-elle d’introduire une éducation au politique auprès des jeunes lecteur·rice·s ? Dans cet article, nous cherchons à explorer, par l’entremise d’un réseau d’œuvres littéraires, les liens entre éveil au politique et représentations du pouvoir dans un corpus de science-fiction. Notre étude se concentre sur quatre séries adolescentes : Divergente de Veronica Roth, La Passe-Miroir de Chris­telle Dabos, La Faucheuse de Neal Shusterman et Cogito de Victor Dixen. Elle nous permettra d’établir des pistes pour aborder la littérature young adult dans le but d’aider les adolescent·e·s à développer un esprit critique sur divers enjeux politiques et sociaux présents dans leur quotidien.
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Yun, Claudia Sangmi. "Canadian Science Fiction for Children and Young Adults: Focusing on Novels from the 1980s." Korean Society for Teaching English Literature 26, no. 3 (December 31, 2022): 135–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.19068/jtel.2022.26.3.05.

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The present study overviews Canadian science fiction for children and young adults in its early history. Canada’s multiculturalism is a great resource for diversity on their literary works, but at the same time, it often turns into concerns on their national identity. Canadian novels portray this unique trait in their stories with three major features. By contrasting the technology-dominated society with the nature-friendly one, they ultimately aim for an idyllic society. Also, the works express distrust of technology and progress with concerns about negative effects on the global environment. Finally, they lie on the blurred border between fantasy adventure and science fiction. Unlike mainstream science fiction novels, Canadian children’s SF writers take the subjects of science, nature, and humans more seriously. Depicting a variety of possible future societies, they continue to emphasize both the harmony of technology and the nature and the exploration of human identity. This originality distinguishes them from other countries’ works and are sufficiently attractive to many young readers.
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Agustina, Susanti, Wan Satirah Wan Mohd Saman, Norshila Shaifuddin, and Rafidah Abdul Aziz. "Reading material selection for bibliotherapy based on blood type in young adult groups." Jurnal Kajian Informasi & Perpustakaan 10, no. 1 (June 30, 2022): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.24198/jkip.v10i1.31022.

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Blood type as biological information is still considered a prophecy and pseudoscience that still needs to be proven. It is the easiest and cheapest among other genetic identification tools.This study aimed to map reading material selections based on blood type personality. This study was a quantitative approach through cross-sectional survey. Identification was obtained from data in identity cards and laboratory blood type tests. The study population was 100 UPI LIS students with 80 samples of young adults aged 18-22 through random sampling with stratification. The samples were: 9 respondents with AB blood type and 25 with A blood type. Respondents of O and B blood types each followed the selection of the expected sample was 20 people. Each homogeneous sample filled out a questionnaire on reading material selection aspects. Results showed that 55.6% of the AB blood type chose non-fiction books such as 'how-to' related to hobbies, and 52% of A blood type tended to select non-fiction books that support their tasks and work. Also, 81.8% of B blood type chose fiction books and adventure stories opening up fantasy horizons, and 80% of O blood type chose books that did not always have to be brought to the big screen/filmed; however, they were recommended and told. In conclusion, this blood type personality model can identify young adult clients' profiles to develop bibliotherapy service programs in different types of libraries and make it easier for librarians and bibliotherapists to recommend reading materials suitable for the benefit of preventive-curative bibliotherapy.
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Fleming, Hannah. "Virtual Reality Life Writing and Young Adult Media Practice." European Journal of Life Writing 10 (December 6, 2021): BB24—BB39. http://dx.doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.10.38161.

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This article investigates the impact of digital technologies on the production of life writing texts and media for and by young adults. Five categories in total are examined: (i) Fan Fiction, (ii) life simulator games, (iii) SNS (social networking sites), (iv) VR (virtual reality) documentaries and (v) Webtoons. The article begins by synthesising numerous critical studies on children’s and digital life writing, before analysing two IVR (immersive virtual reality) documentaries in depth. It concludes by discussing the relationship between these on-the-go, online and immersive VR modes and fantasised futures, narratives of extremity and the slice of life genre.
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Cicholewski, Alena. "Empathy as an Answer to Challenges of the Anthropocene in Asian American Young Adult Science Fiction." Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal 10, no. 2 (March 28, 2023): 5–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v10i2.958.

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This article suggests that Malinda Lo’s Adaptation duology (2012-2013) and Cindy Pon’s Want duology (2017-2019) represent empathy as a desirable answer to challenges of the Anthropocene. Set in near-future Taipei, Want follows a group of teenagers who eventually become militant environmental activists. The teenage protagonists’ capacity for empathy distinguishes them from the villainous antagonist and makes them likeable for the readers despite their violent tactics. Lo’s duology features two teenagers who are turned into human/alien hybrids by extra-terrestrial scientists after a nearly fatal car accident. The procedure equips the protagonists not only with an accelerated healing ability, but also gives them access to other people’s emotions through touch. Although the teenagers at first experience their newfound superpowers as a burden, they slowly realise their significant potential for changing humanity for the better. My article will combine close readings from the novels with research from ecopedagogy to explore in how far novels like Lo’s Adaptation and Pon’s Want can encourage readers to treat their fellow human beings as well as more-than-human life forms with more empathy.
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CLARK, ROGER, and HEIDI KULKIN. "Toward a Multicultural Feminist Perspective on Fiction for Young Adults." Youth & Society 27, no. 3 (March 1996): 291–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0044118x96027003002.

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Pellegrini, Chiara. "Temporalities Beyond Transition: Form, Genre, and Contemporary Trans Novels." Studies in the Novel 55, no. 4 (2023): 492–508. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2023.a913308.

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ABSTRACT: Popular narratives about trans identity traditionally rely on a metaphorical understanding of trans embodiment as a linear and unidirectional journey. This paper discusses how this temporality is questioned, reshaped, interrupted, and sidestepped in five recent novels by trans and non-binary authors: Torrey Peters’s Detransition, Baby (2021), Andrea Lawlor’s Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl (2017), Juno Dawson’s Wonderland (2020), Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts (2017), and Alison Rumfitt’s Tell Me I’m Worthless (2021). The spatiotemporal organization of these novels negotiates the linearities that are conventionally employed in relation to trans stories, as each text engages with the conventions of specific genres—from the Bildungsroman to the picaresque, from science fiction to “chick lit,” from young adult literature to horror—in order to move beyond the structure of the personal transition journey.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Young adult fiction, science fiction, general"

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Chen, Jou-An. "Airship, Automaton, and Alchemy: A Steampunk Exploration of Young Adult Science Fiction." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Humanities, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7423.

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Steampunk first appeared in the 1980s as a subgenre of science fiction, featuring anachronistic technologies with a veneer of Victorian sensibilities. In recent years steampunk has re-emerged in young adult science fiction as a fresh and dynamic subgenre, which includes titles such as The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross, The Hunchback Assignment by Arthur Slade, and Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve. Like their predecessors, these modern steampunk novels for teens use retrofuturistic historiography and innovative mechanical aesthetics to dramatize the volatile relationship between man and technology, only in these novels the narrative is intentionally set in the context of their teen protagonist's social and emotional development. However, didactic conventions such as technophobia and the formulaic linearity of the bildungsroman narrative complicate and frustrate steampunk's representation of adolescent formation. Using case studies of Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld and The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia, retrofuturism and technological hybridity are presented as defining features of steampunk that subvert young adult science fiction's technophobic and liberal humanist traditions. The dirigible and the automaton are examined as the quintessential tropes of steampunk fiction that reproduce the necessary amphibious quality, invoking new expressions and understanding of adolescent growth and identity formation that have a distinctly utopian, nostalgic, and ecocentric undertone.
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Brodie, Jessica J. "Children in science fiction utopias: feminism's blueprint for change." FIU Digital Commons, 1999. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2425.

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The purpose of this thesis was to examine the treatment and portrayal of children in science fiction utopian literature and determine whether this effectively indicated the writers’ feminist visions for social change. A feminist theoretical perspective and critical interpretation of several of the genre’s canon, Sheri Tepper’s The Gate to Women’s Country, Suzy McKee Chamas’s Motherlines, Sally Miller Gearhart’s The Wanderground, Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed and Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis series, were used as research methodologies. The findings revealed that children communicate feminist prescriptions for change in three ways: children as the literal, biological future, the link between two opposing societies, or the explanation for the difficult philosophies and structural elements of the societies. As this subject has been an unexplored area of criticism, it is recommended that critics begin to examine this treatment of children to more easily understand the writers’ social visions and effect their blueprints for change.
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Gullberg, Beata. "The Hate U Give and Interpretive Communities : How Young Adult Fiction Can Strengthen a Political Movement." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-35864.

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In the wake of the guilty verdict of George Floyd’s murderer, police officer Derek Chauvin, there is hope for change in the pattern of police brutality against black people in the United States. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas was published three years prior to George Floyd’s death, in 2017, and is a realistic fictional novel in the young adult genre that has gained attention for its relevant contribution in the debate of racism and police violence, as the fictional victim Khalil Harris, an unarmed black teenager, does not receive the same justice as George Floyd. In this essay, reader response to The Hate U Give is analysed in order to examine how it affects the opinions and worldview of the reader during and after the read. A close reading and analysis of pivotal scenes was carried out using affective stylistics, in order to interpret what the text does to the reader word-by-word, and subsequently the reader’s creation of meaning was examined and discussed. The reader’s response was then analysed with Stanley Fish’s theoretical framework of interpretive communities, groups with shared social norms and worldviews, which dictate how individuals create meaning in the first place. The analysis suggests that readers of The Hate U Give, while starting out in different, albeit to a certain extent similar, interpretive communities, will gradually align themselves with the interpretive community of Black Lives Matter through shared ideas and opinions and the increased understanding they develop when they read the novel.
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Albert, Brynn. "Themes of Diversity in YA Lit: An Excerpt From 'Initiate'." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1494727060222522.

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Everett, Katharine More. "Eden." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1589227367791853.

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Makaresz, Sandra Jane. "Skydweller and representations of the adolescent crisis : group identity versus alienation." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/32176/1/Sandra_Makaresz_Thesis.pdf.

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This document contains a creative work – the text of a young adult novel, Skydweller – and an exegesis discussing the ways in which identity and the adolescent crisis of group identity versus alienation are represented in young adult science fiction/fantasy novels.
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Fois, Daniela. "Disability Bias and the Misrepresentation of Chronic Illness and Invisible Disability in Contemporary YA Fiction." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-157431.

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Despite the success illness novels have acquired in the last decade, the misrepresentation of chronic illness in the Young Adult genre is still going unnoticed. In an ableist society that still needs to be educated about invisible disabilities, most of the contemporary YA writers insist on finding miraculous solutions and questionable happy endings to their stories. The aim of this thesis is therefore to study the different ways in which YA writers fetishize and understate invisible disability and to find a way to subvert it. By focusing on the miracle cure trope and romanticization in the case of Nicola Yoon’s Everything Everything, it attempts to highlight the characteristics of low-quality disability fiction and demonstrate why and how the use of disability biases can affect negatively both disabled and nondisabled young readers. In addition, through the scrutiny of the author’s first YA novel, Nothing Wrong with Snails, it then illustrates how the in-depth analysis of past disability literature improved the author’s personal craft and enabled them to portray chronic illness and invisible disability avoiding stereotypes, biases, and tropes. In conclusion, it argues that writers ought to rely on disability studies in order to reach higher standards in the representation of invisible disability in YA fiction.
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Selzer, Dominik. "Critical Thinkers through The Hunger Games : Working with Dystopian Fiction in the EFL Classroom." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-65374.

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This essay gives examples of possible ways to inspire young adults to become politically more aware and active using dystopian fiction in the EFL classroom. First, an overview of the dystopian genre and different ways of using it in the EFL classroom to improve critical thinking skills will be given. Subsequently, different scenes from The Hunger Games will be analyzed to show how young adults can be inspired to be more aware of social and environmental justice and to act. Finally, it is discussed why literary material in a classroom must relate to a student’s personal life and why the relevance must be explained to a student to raise their interest. As a conclusion, it is claimed that it cannot be expected that all students care for the world, but showing them why they should and how they could do it is a first step.
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Balster, Lori Maria Tarkany. "Cassie Dates Melvin: Or, How Two People Struggle to Save Their Town Despite a Few Small Obstacles Such as Killer Philodendrons (an Excerpt from Book Two in a Series)." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1280259112.

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Lyons, Reneé C. "Trips & Treks: Life Sustaining Expeditions Portrayed in Children’s Nonfiction." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2385.

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Discover the stories of major natural science expeditions, as depicted in award-winning children's non-fiction. Examples include Robert Siebert award winner, Parrots over Puerto Rico, and Orbis Pictus winner, Quest for the Tree Kangaroo. While sharing Common Core correlations and reading promotion activities, participants explore how literature encurages children to care for and consider the natural world of which they are part.
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Books on the topic "Young adult fiction, science fiction, general"

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Silverberg, Robert. Up the line. London: VGSF, 1987.

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Alexander, Will, and Kayla Ancrum. Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions. Candlewick Press, 2022.

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Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions. MITeen Press, 2023.

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Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions. Walker Books Ltd, 2022.

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Patrick, Amy. Defiant: A Young Adult Dystopian Novel. Oxford South Press, 2023.

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Hicks, J. Lynn. Tenacity: A Young Adult Dystopian Thriller. J Lynn Hicks, 2022.

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Hicks, J. Lynn. Tenacity: A Young Adult Dystopian Thriller. J Lynn Hicks, 2022.

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Hicks, J. Lynn. Tenacity: A Young Adult Dystopian Thriller. J Lynn Hicks, 2022.

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Tarr, Anita, and Donna R. White, eds. Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496816696.001.0001.

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Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction: Finding Humanity in a Posthuman World, edited by Anita Tarr and Donna White, is a collection of twelve essays analyzing young adult science fiction and fantasy in terms of how representative contemporary YA books’ authors describe and their characters portray elements of posthumanist attitudes. The authors give a brief survey of theorists’ discussions of how posthumanism rejects—but does not entirely forsake—liberal humanist tenets. Primarily, posthumanism calls for embracing the Other, eliminating binaries that separate human and nonhuman, human and nature, organic and inorganic, stressing the process of always-becoming. Due to technological enhancements, we should recognize that our species is changing, as it always has, becoming more networked and communal, fluid and changeable. Posthumanism does not mandate cyborgs, cloning, genetic enhancement, animal-human hybrids, mutations, advanced prosthetics, and superhuman strengths—although all of these are discussed in the collected essays. Posthumanism generally upholds liberal humanist values of compassion, fairness, and ethical responsibility, but dismantles the core of anthropocentrism: the notion that humans are superior and dominant over all other species and have the right to control, exploit, destroy, or marginalize those who are not the ideal white, able-bodied male. The more we discover about humans, the more we question our exceptionality; that is, since we co-evolved with many other organisms, especially bacteria, there is no DNA genome that is uniquely human; since we share many traits with animals, there is no single trait that defines us as human or as not human (such as using tools, speaking language, having a soul, expressing emotions, being totally organic, having a sense of wonder). The twelve essayists do not propose that YA fiction should offer guidelines for negotiating posthumanist subjectivity—being fragmented and multiple, networked vulnerable—though many of the novels analyzed actually do this. Other novelists bring their adolescent characters to the brink, but do not allow them to move beyond the familiar structures of society, even if they are rebelling against those very structures. Indeed, adolescence and posthumanism share many elements, especially anxieties about future possibilities, embracing new ideas and new selves, and being in a liminal state of in-between-ness that does not resolve itself. In other words, young adult fiction is the ideal venue to explore how we are now or we might in the future maintain our humanity in a posthuman world.
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Scarlet Letter Annotated Teen and Young Adult Science Fiction. Independently Published, 2020.

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Caeners, Torsten. "Negotiating the Human in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus." In Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction, 199–226. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496816696.003.0010.

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Using psychoanalytic theories, Torsten Caeners places the film Prometheus squarely in the canon of YA literature. The characters Elizabeth and the android David are “ciphers for young adult concerns of coming of age.” The crew of the spaceship Prometheus discovers the Engineers, superhuman aliens who created humans. Elizabeth, obsessed with origins, believes they have found the source of humanity, but because of her refusal to let go of her belief paradigms (represented by her father, God, science, and finally the Engineers) she remains in stasis and even moves backward from transitioning in her development. David, though, is the true adolescent, in-between human and nonhuman, moving on and changing, experiencing transformations—the hallmark of posthumanism—serially. Caeners argues that posthumanism is adolescence, as both are liminal conditions, fluid, boundary-less, marked by the angst of transformation and new possibilities.
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Sheldon, Rebekah. "Dystopian Futures and Utopian Presents in Contemporary Young Adult Science Fiction." In The Cambridge History of Science Fiction, 713–24. Cambridge University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316694374.046.

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Yu Burnett, Joshua. "“Vine Head,” “Snake Lady,” “Swamp Witch”." In Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction, 187–203. University Press of Mississippi, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496833815.003.0011.

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In this chapter, Joshua Yu Burnett demonstrates that Okorafor simultaneously critiques speculative fiction for its one-dimensional depictions of race and works within the confines of the genre to advocate for fluid, multifaceted intersectionality. While popular young adult dystopian/science fiction novels frequently depict white girls and young women overcoming societal expectations and oppressions, such novels often ignore the role whiteness plays in the protagonist’s ability to resist. This chapter argues that Okorafor takes an intersectional approach, recognizing the role that racialization plays and the toll it takes, as well as locates racialized otherness as a source of resistance and the overcoming of constricting social norms. Okorafor’s work is valuable for precisely this reason: she not only depicts Black and African girls in speculative settings, but she transforms their double marginalization into resistance and empowerment.
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Levy, Michael. "“The Golden Age of Science Fiction Is Twelve”: Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction into the 1980s." In The Cambridge History of Science Fiction, 265–78. Cambridge University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316694374.018.

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Campbell, Joseph W. "“The Electric Boy1 Grows Up”: Science Fiction for a Young Adult Audience." In The Order and the Other, 43–76. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496824721.003.0003.

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Chapter 2 shows in a compressed, somewhat truncated way, the unique history of science fiction (sometimes called speculative fiction). This chapter also shows some of the myriad theoretical approaches that have been used in the study of science fiction over time. It then demonstrates how those approaches have been used by giving close readings of science fiction texts intended for young adults. This is in an effort to show the difference between science fiction and dystopian literature. It shows that it is a literature directly concerned with the subject’s encounter with the o/Other.
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Thiess, Derek J. "Baseball, not Biology." In Sport and Monstrosity in Science Fiction, 36–60. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781786942227.003.0003.

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This chapter confronts the central claim of many in sport studies that sports may best be characterized by hegemonic masculinity. This school of thought is reflected in the work of such scholars as Nancy Lesko and Varda Burstyn. To challenge this notion, this chapter reads widely from early feminist utopia to contemporary young adult science fiction, exploring the representation of gender as it relates to sport. Science fiction does not limit sport to the realm of the masculine. Athletic bodies, rather, present a distinct limitation to the construction of sport as an inherently violent, destructive (coded masculine) space. In this way, this chapter saves a place for biological embodiment and posits the equation of sport and hegemonic masculinity as an oversimplified essentialism.
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Onion, Rebecca. "Space Cadets and Rocket Boys." In Innocent Experiments. University of North Carolina Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469629476.003.0005.

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After World War II, science-fiction authors found lucrative side gigs in writing fiction for young people. Before “young adult” books were a fixed category, authors like Robert Heinlein wrote stories about space for middle-grade readers, most of whom were male. This chapter looks at Heinlein’s juvenile fiction published by Scribner’s, and shows how his work reinforced a vision of scientific masculinity.
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Nikolajeva, Maria. "Afterword." In Intergenerational Solidarity in Children's Literature and Film, 231–46. University Press of Mississippi, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496831910.003.0017.

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This chapter discusses the tension between intergenerational solidarity and intergenerational conflict in children's and young adult fiction from two theoretical perspectives: bio-psychological and aesthetic. The former approach employs the framework of evolutionary literary studies to explore intergenerational relationships in a broad evolutionary perspective, that is, considering why child/adult hierarchies are portrayed the way they are, in arts in general and in children’s literature in particular. The main reason is that children and adults have different evolutionary goals, which is duly reflected in fiction. From the aesthetic point of view, the whole premise of children's literature is a generation conflict. In plot construction, the primary role of parents in children’s literature is to be absent, preferably dead, which allows child protagonists agency generally unavailable to real children. The primary role of parents in young adult fiction is to be the target of parental revolt. Between these two categories, there is not much room for intergenerational solidarity on the structural level, and intergenerational solidarity is a contradiction in terms.
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Midkiff, Emily. "Introduction." In Equipping Space Cadets, 3–8. University Press of Mississippi, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496839022.003.0001.

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This chapter opens the book with an example of a science fiction book for children, Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor (2014), and an anecdote about how it was nearly not published due to the belief that children do not like science fiction with too much science. Through comparing this children's book to advanced and classic science fiction, this chapter sets the stage for examining how adult beliefs about childhood innocence and ability obscures the actual quality and possibilities of science fiction for young readers. The chapter concludes with an overview of the book's other chapters.
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Skowera, Maciej, and Joanna Żygowska. "Krajobraz po „krajobrazie po Terakowskiej”, czyli o najnowszej polskiej fantastyce dziecięcej i młodzieżowej." In Imaginautka zaangażowana. Twórczość i biografia Doroty Terakowskiej z perspektywy XXI wieku, 314–39. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego w Krakowie, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24917/9788380847460.21.

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The landscape after “the landscape after Terakowska,” or on the latest Polish children’s and young adult fantasy and science fiction The chapter is an attempt to outline the landscape of Polish children’s and young adult fantasy and science fiction in the last dozen or so years, with particular emphasis on the works of the most important authors, as well as on key development trends, popular topics, and original phenomena. Attention has been paid to the writings of Andrzej Maleszka, Marta Kisiel, Marcin Szczygielski, Justyna Bednarek, and Małgorzata Strękowska-Zaremba. In the course of the analyses of subsequent works, the authors of the text point out the most interesting plot, worldbuilding, topical, and motif solutions that can be identified on the Polish ground. They highlight, among other things, the works’ references to the Slavic past, combining humorous plots with reflectiveness, searching for new genres, numerous references to contemporary problems and fears about the future, and using fantasy and science fiction to present historical and socially sensitive content.
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Conference papers on the topic "Young adult fiction, science fiction, general"

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Hernandez, Eric. "Influence of Young Adult Fiction on Developing Science Identity of LGBTQ+ Youth in Texas." In AERA 2023. USA: AERA, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/ip.23.2061621.

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