Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Freedom and Constraint: Adolescent Liberty and Self Determination 1. What Faction Are You In?: The Pleasure of Being Sorted in Veronica Roth’s 2. Coming of Age in Dystopia: Reading Genre in Holly Black’s Curse Workers Series 3. Embodying the Postmetropolis in Catherine Fisher’s Incarceron and Sapphique Part II: Society and Environment: Building a Better World 4. Hope in Dark Times: Climate Change and the World Risk Society in Saci Lloyd’s The Carbon Diaries 2015 and 2017 5. Educating Desire, Choosing Justice? Susan Beth Pfeffer’s Last Survivors Series and Julie Bertagna’s Exodus 6. On the Brink: The Role of Young Adult Culture in Environmental Degradation Part III: Radical or Conservative? Polemics of the Future 7. "The Dandelion in the Spring": Utopia as Romance in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Trilogy 8. The Future is Pale: Race in Contemporary Young Adult Dystopian Novels 9. Technology and Models of Literacy in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction Part IV: Biotechnologies of the Self: Humanity in a Posthuman Age 10. Dystopian Sacrifice, Scapegoats, and Neal Shusterman’s Unwind 11. The Soul of the Clone: Coming of Age as a Posthuman in Nancy Farmer’s The House of the Scorpion 12. Parables for the Postmodern, Post-9.11, and Posthuman World: Carrie Ryan's Forest of Hands and Teeth Books, M. T. Anderson's Feed, and Mary E. Pearson's The Adoration of Jenna Fox

About the Author

Balaka Basu is a Ph.D. candidate in English at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, US.


Katherine R. Broad holds a Ph.D. in English from The Graduate Center, City University of New York, US.


Carrie Hintz is Associate Professor of English at Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, US.

Reviews

Winner of the Children’s Literature Association Edited Book Award"Notably, regardless of whether they have or have not read the novels and whether they are laypersons or scholars, all readers are placed on equal footing. This feature of Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults makes it a great choice for those who want to pick it up as a guide to expand their knowledge on both literary and ideological sides of YA dystopian writing. (..) Highly recommended for academics as well as for chidlren's literature fans." - Robert Gadowski, University of Wroclaw, Poland, Bookbord, Vol. 53, No. 3, 2015