Contemporary speculative fiction
By: editor, M. Keith Booker, University of Arkansas
Series: Critical insights
Publisher: Salem Press,a division of EBSCO Publishing,Grey House Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ipswich, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781429838207
Subjects: Fantasy fiction; Young adult fiction; Science fiction; Speculative fiction; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On contemporary speculative fiction; title: Critical contexts. The critical reception of speculative fiction; title: We both know they have to have a victor: a critical ecofeminist deconstruction of the battle between nature and culture in Suzanne Collins' Hunger games trilogy; title: The games people play: speculative childhood and virtual culture from ender to hunger; title: Feminists kick butt: feminism in the work of three urban fantasy authors; title: Critical readings. Good, evil and the soul thereafter: whose dark materials in Pullman's His dark materials trilogy?; title: Anglo-Saxonism in the Harry Potter series; title: "A tall black boy": writing race in the world of Harry Potter; title: Who's betting on The hunger games?: a case for young adult literature; title: "Minister, said the girl, "we need to talk": China Miéville's Un lun dun as radical fantasy for children and young adults; title: Prencks contra you: a poetry of horror, a poetry of hope in China Miéville's fantasy fictions (for young adults, &/or not); title: Postcolonial speculative fiction in Africa and its diaspora; title: Black girlhood interrupted: race, imperial disruption, and adolescence in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight robber; title: "My stories are quite tame": Margo Lanagan and the critics; title: Young adult zombies: Daniel Waters' Generation dead as sociopolitical intervention; title: The twenty-first-century fantasy film explosion: redefining a film genre.