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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Children and Youth in Popular Culture
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Children and youth in popular culture.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction: Travel, Technology, Time intersects considerations about children's and youth's agency with the popular culture genre of science fiction. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency in children's lives, this collection places science fiction at the heart of this endeavor. Retellings of the past, narratives of the present, and new landscapes of the future, each explored in science fiction, allow for creative reimaginings of the capabilities, movements, and agency of youth. Core themes of generation, embodiment, family, identity, belonging, gender, and friendship traverse across the chapters and inform the contributors' readings of various film, literature, television, and virtual media sources. Here, children and youth are heterogeneous, and agency as a central analytical concept is interrogated through interdisciplinary, intersectional, intergenerational, and posthuman analyses. The contributors argue that there is vast power in science fiction representations of children's agency to challenge accepted notions of neoliberal agency, enhance understandings of agency in childhood studies, and further contextualize agency in the lives, voices, and cultures of youth"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Part I. The Past. "Why Are You Keeping This Curiosity Door Locked?" Childhood Subjectivities and Play as Conflict Resolution in the Postmodern Web Series Stranger Things / Joseph Giunta -- "It Was a Wonder I Was Even Born" : Reversing the Technical Performance of Childhood in Back to the Future / Kip Kline -- In the Shadow of the Claw : Jubilee, X-23, and the Mutated Possibilities of Youth Agency across Generations in the World of the X-Men / Kwasu David Tembo and Muireann B. Crowley -- Part II. The Present. Biker Gangs and Boyhood Agency in Akira / Jessica Clark -- From Tribute to Mockingjay: Representations of Katniss Everdeen’s Agency in the Hunger Games Series / Megan McDonough -- The Yoke of Childhood: Misgivings about Children’s Relationship to Technology in Contemporary Science Fiction / Jessica Kenty-Drane -- "Ship Wars" and the OTP: Narrating Desire, Literate Agency, and Emerging Sexualities in Fanfiction of The 100 / Erin Kenny -- Part III: The Future. A Pedagogy of Childhood Agency: Teaching Power of Youth in the Ender Universe / Joaquin Muñoz -- Sanctuary and Agency in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction / Stephanie Thompson -- The Emergence of Agency after Bionuclear War: Posthuman Child - Animal Possibilities / Ingrid E. Castro -- Afterword: The Children of Wonder / Gary Westfahl. |
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Concurrent user level: 1 user |
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Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction, American. |
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Science fiction, English -- History and critcism.
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Science fiction, English. |
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Children in literature.
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Children in literature. |
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Young adults in literature.
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Young adults in literature. |
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Children in motion pictures.
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Children in mass media.
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Children in motion pictures. |
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Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
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Children in mass media. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Motion pictures. |
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Social Science: Popular Culture. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Castro, Ingrid E., editor.
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Clark, Jessica, 1986- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Child and youth agency in science fiction Lanham : Lexington Books, 2019. 9781498597388 (DLC) 2019039899 |
| ISBN |
9781498597395 (epub) |
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1498597394 |
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9781498597388 |
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1498597386 |
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