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African American Adolescent Female Heroes : The Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative

A scholarly examination of contemporary neo-slave narratives and their African American heroines.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Marotta, Melanie A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2023.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • 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 Narrative, 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
  • About the Author
  • Back Cover