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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.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:	Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal:	Marotta, Melanie A. (Auteur)
Format:	Électronique eBook
Langue:	Inglés
Publié:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2023.
Collection:	Children's Literature Association series.
Sujets:	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.
Accès en ligne:	Texto completo

Table des matières:

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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