{"product_id":"child-and-youth-agency-in-science-fiction-9781498597401","title":"Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChild 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 th\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany of the essays are provocative and insightful, asking questions of how their focal texts relate to their publication eras and cultures of origin, as well as how sf can expand readers’ understanding of childhood agency. . . . Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction is a thought-provoking collection of essays and, ultimately, a worthwhile addition to popular-culture criticism and youth agency discourses.\u003c\/p\u003e * Science Fiction Studies *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a wonderful collection of essays which triumphantly prove the importance of integrating childhood and youth studies and children’s literature. Exploring notions of time, agency, and futurity through the lens of science fiction, this book provides intriguing and fascinating insights into children and young people’s worlds and into the ways adults imagine children’s futures and understand their own pasts. -- Heather Montgomery, The Open University, UK\u003cbr\u003eWe embrace children and youth as our future, yet we consistently silence them and fail to take them seriously in our present. This powerful edited collection creatively uses science fiction to disrupt this problematic pattern by offering readers of all ages and backgrounds an engaging and necessary intervention in children and youth studies. A must-read for those committed to centering the voices and experiences of children and youth in the world. -- Georgiann Davis, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, author of Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Castro and Clark’s fascinating volume, we meet mutant children, zombie children, time-traveling children, cyborg children, post-apocalyptic children, and children plunged into all varieties of uncanny circumstances. The book’s engaging and erudite discussions of these fantastic scenarios offer memorable insights into iconic popular narratives, and, collectively, they articulate a refreshing affirmation of the resilience, dignity, and creativity with which young people negotiate the challenges presented to them by adult society.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Randy Laist, Goodwin College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Girl Zombies and Boy Wonders: The Future of Agency is Now! \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJessica Clark and Ingrid E. Castro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: The Past\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: “Why Are You Keeping This Curiosity Door Locked?” Childhood Subjectivities and Play as Conflict Resolution in the Postmodern Web Series Stranger Things\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph Giunta \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two: “It Was a Wonder I Was Even Born”: Reversing the Technical Performance of Childhood in Back to the Future\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKip Kline\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three: 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKwasu David Tembo and Muireann B. Crowley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: The Present\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four: Biker Gangs and Boyhood Agency in Akira\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJessica Clark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five: From Tribute to Mockingjay: Representations of Katniss Everdeen’s Agency in the Hunger Games Series\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMegan McDonough\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Six: The Yoke of Childhood: Misgivings about Children’s Relationship to Technology in Contemporary Science Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJessica Kenty-Drane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: “Ship Wars” and the OTP: Narrating Desire, Literate Agency, and Emerging Sexualities in Fanfiction of The 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErin Kenny\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: The Future\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eight: A Pedagogy of Childhood Agency: Teaching Power of Youth in the Ender Universe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoaquin Muñoz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Nine: Sanctuary and Agency in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephanie Thompson\u003cbr\u003eChapter Ten: The Emergence of Agency after Bionuclear War: Posthuman Child – Animal Possibilities\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIngrid E. Castro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword: The Children of Wonder \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGary Westfahl\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040874201431,"sku":"9781498597401","price":34.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/child-and-youth-agency-in-science-fiction-9781498597401","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}