{"product_id":"race-in-young-adult-speculative-meghan-gilbert-hickey-9781496833822","title":"Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Children's Literature Association's 2023 Edited Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributions by Malin Alkestrand, Joshua Yu Burnett, Sean P. Connors, Jill Coste, Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Sierra Hale, Kathryn Strong Hansen, Elizabeth Ho, Esther L. Jones, Sarah Olutola, Alex Polish, Zara Rix, Susan Tan, and Roberta Seelinger Trites \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRace in Young Adult Speculative Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e offers a sustained analysis of race and representation in young adult speculative fiction (YASF). The collection considers how characters of color are represented in YASF, how they contribute to and participate in speculative worlds, how race affects or influences the structures of speculative worlds, and how race and racial ideologies are implicated in YASF. This collection also examines how race and racism are discussed in YASF or if, indeed, race and racism are discussed at all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEssays explore such notable and popular works as the \u003ci\u003eDivergent \u003c\/i\u003eseries, \u003ci\u003eThe Red Queen\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lunar Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eInfernal Devices\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy. They consider the effects of colorblind ideology and postracialism on YASF, a genre that is often seen as progressive in its representation of adolescent protagonists. Simply put, colorblindness silences those who believe--and whose experiences demonstrate--that race and racism do continue to matter. In examining how some YASF texts normalize many of our social structures and hierarchies, this collection examines how race and racism are represented in the genre and considers how hierarchies of race are reinscribed in some texts and transgressed in others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributors point toward the potential of YASF to address and interrogate racial inequities in the contemporary West and beyond. They critique texts that fall short of this possibility, and they articulate ways in which readers and critics alike might nonetheless locate diversity within narratives. This is a collection troubled by the lingering emphasis on colorblindness in YASF, but it is also the work of scholars who love the genre and celebrate its progress toward inclusivity, and who further see in it an enduring future for intersectional identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Meghan Gilbert-Hickey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496833821\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496833822\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/22\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2022","brand":"Meghan Gilbert-Hickey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987613548799,"sku":"9781496833822","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6a8d85ee-8eec-42d5-aa19-08cb8c1e8fc6.jpg?v=1683290031","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/race-in-young-adult-speculative-meghan-gilbert-hickey-9781496833822","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}