Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction : Travel, Technology, Time /: Travel, Technology, Time. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ingrid E. Castro, Jessica Clark, Ingrid E. Castro, Jessica Clark, Muireann B. Crowley, Joseph Giunta, Erin Kenny, Jessica Kenty-Drane, Kip Kline, Megan McDonough, Joaquin Muñoz, Kwasu David Tembo, Stephanie Thompson, Gary Westfahl.
• Editors: Castro, Ingrid E; Clark, Jessica
• Other Names: Castro, Ingrid E contributor.; Clark, Jessica contributor.; Crowley, Muireann B contributor.; Giunta, Joseph contributor.; Kenny, Erin contributor.; Kenty-Drane, Jessica contributor.; Kline, Kip contributor.; McDonough, Megan contributor.; Muñoz, Joaquín contributor.; Tembo, Kwasu David contributor.; Thompson, Stephanie contributor.; Westfahl, Gary writer of supplementary textual content.
• Contents: <p style="line-height:1.5;">Introduction: Girl Zombies and Boy Wonders: The Future of Agency is Now! ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Jessica Clark and Ingrid E. Castro ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Part I: Past ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Chapter One: “Why Are You Keeping This Curiosity Door Locked?” Childhood Subjectivities and Play as Conflict Resolution in the Postmodern Web Series <span style="font-style:italic;">Stranger Things ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Joseph Giunta ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Chapter Two: “It Was a Wonder I Was Even Born”: Reversing the Technical Performance of Childhood in <span style="font-style:italic;">Back to the Future ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Kip Kline ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Chapter Three: In the Shadow of the Claw: Jubilee, X-23, and the Mutated Possibilities of Youth Agency across Generations in the World of the <span style="font-style:italic;">X-Men ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Kwasu David Tembo and Muireann B. Crowley ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Part II: Present ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Chapter Four: Biker Gangs and Boyhood Agency ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Jessica Clark ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Chapter Five: From Tribute to Mockingjay: Representations of Katniss Everdeen’s Agency in the <span style="font-style:italic;">Hunger Games Series ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Megan McDonough ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Chapter Six: The Yoke of Childhood: Misgivings about Children’s Relationship to Technology in Contemporary Science Fiction ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Jessica Kenty-Drane ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;"><br />; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Chapter Seven: “Ship Wars” and the OTP: Narrating Desire, Literate Agency, and Emerging Sexualities in Fanfiction of <span style="font-style:italic;">The 100 ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Erin Kenny ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Part III: Future ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Chapter Eight: A Pedagogy of Childhood Agency: Teaching Power of Youth in the Ender Universe ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Joaquin Muñoz ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Chapter Nine: Sanctuary and Agency in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Stephanie Thompson; ; ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Chapter Ten: The <span style="font-style:italic;">Emergence of Agency after Bionuclear War: Posthuman Child – Animal Possibilities ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Ingrid E. Castro ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Afterword: The Children of Wonder ; ; <p style="line-height:1.5;">Gary Westfahl
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (314 pages), (17 illustrations)
• Subjects: Social Science: Popular Culture
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498597395; 1498597394
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.