Description
Book Synopsis The rise of YA dystopian literature has seen an explosion of female protagonists who are stirring young people''s interest in social and political topics, awakening their civic imagination, and inspiring them to work for change. These Girls on Fire are intersectional and multidimensional characters. They are leaders in their communities and they challenge injustice and limited representations. The Girl on Fire fights for herself and for those who are oppressed, voiceless, or powerless. She is the hope for our shared future.
This collection of new essays brings together teachers and students from a variety of educational contexts to explore how to harness the cultural power of the Girl on Fire as we educate real-world students. Each essay provides both theoretical foundations as well as practical, hands-on teaching tools that can be used with diverse groups of students, in formal as well as informal educational settings. This volume challenges readers to realize the symbol
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Girls on Fire: "Off the Page and Into the World"
- Part One: Exploring New Ground for Girls on Fire Athletic Girls on Fire: Representations of the Female Athlete in The Hunger Games and Sports-Related Media
- From Girls on Fire to Historical Bad Girls: A Framework for Critiquing Postfeminism and Neoliberalism in YA Literature
- Teaching Feminisms: Triumphs and Failures in The Hunger
- Games Trilogy
- Part Two: #MeToo: Sexual Realities, Activism and Empowerment
- Young Adult Literature and Girls on Fire as Fuel for Teaching the #MeToo Movement
- Say Something, Do Something: Creating Allies and Agents
- Through The Nowhere Girls on Fire
- Troubling Girls on Fire in Young Adult Literature: A Critical
- Examination of Systemic Violence and Sexual Trauma in Asking for It
- Part Three: The Girl on Fire in the University Classroom On Teaching Girls Who Want to Burn: The Problems and Possibilities of Feminist Education
- It Starts with a Book: An Exemplary "Girl on Fire" and Her Undergraduate Thesis on Racial Social Justice
- Teaching Octavia Butler's Diverse Body of Speculative Fiction:
- Genre, Race and the Radical Imaginary
- Teaching/Learning YA Dystopia's Girls on Fire in Denmark's
- Educational System and International Community
- Conclusion: "[Girls on Fire]: Tear This Wall Down!"
- International and Imaginative Contexts for Teaching Girls on Fire
- About the Contributors
- Index
