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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:	Libro Electrónico
Main Author:	Marotta, Melanie A. (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	Inglés
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2023.
Series:	Children's Literature Association series.
Subjects:	Slavery in literature. Young adult literature, American. African American women in literature. African American women heroes. African American young adults > Books and reading. Afrofuturism. Science fiction, American > History and criticism. Speculative fiction, American > History and criticism. Esclavage dans la littérature. Littérature pour jeunes adultes américaine. Héroïnes noires américaines. Jeunes adultes noirs américains > Livres et lecture. Afrofuturisme. Roman d'hypothèse américain > Histoire et critique. Afrofuturist. African American women heroes African American women in literature African American young adults > Books and reading Afrofuturism Science fiction, American Slavery in literature Speculative fiction, American Young adult literature, American Literature: history & criticism. Literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	Texto completo

Table of Contents:

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.

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