Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Toward Modern Justice Consciousness: An Idiosyncratic History of Justice with a Note on the Rise of Young People’s Literature 2. How We Know What We Know: Justice Scripts in Literary and Filmic Narratives 3. The World Is Not Fair: Poetic Justice Scripts 4. Find Them and Kill Them: Retributive Justice Scripts 5. No Future without Forgiveness: Restorative Justice Scripts 6. Humans are Animals Too: Environmental Justice Scripts 7. We All Have a Dream: Social Justice Scripts 8. Against Unseen Exploitation: Global Justice Scripts

About the Author

Marek C. Oziewicz is the Marguerite Henry Professor of Children’s and Young Adult Literature at The University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. His recent book One Earth, One People (2008) was the recipient of the 2010 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies.

Reviews

"Here, social justice takes its place among other adaptations of justice (poetic, retributive, restorative, environmental, global) as the author traces historical understandings of justice in parallel with the development of science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative YA fiction...Oziewicz draws on his own experience growing up in Poland under a repressive communist government and on his impressively broad knowledge of young adult literature, film, and video games to trace how justice itself has been conceived since ancient times and to explain what cognitive science reveals about how narrative “scripts” create understanding...Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." - C. A. Bily, Macomb Community College, CHOICE