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Justice in Young Adult Speculative Fiction - A Cognitive Reading (Paperback)
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Justice in Young Adult Speculative Fiction - A Cognitive Reading (Paperback)
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
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This book is the first to offer a justice-focused cognitive reading
of modern YA speculative fiction in its narrative and filmic forms.
It links the expansion of YA speculative fiction in the 20th
century with the emergence of human and civil rights movements,
with the communitarian revolution in conceptualizations of justice,
and with spectacular advances in cognitive sciences as applied to
the examination of narrative fiction. Oziewicz argues that complex
ideas such as justice are processed by the human mind as cognitive
scripts; that scripts, when narrated, take the form of multiply
indexable stories; and that YA speculative fiction is currently the
largest conceptual testing ground in the forging of justice
consciousness for the 21st century world. Drawing on recent
research in the cognitive and evolutionary sciences, Oziewicz
explains how poetic, retributive, restorative, environmental,
social, and global types of justice have been represented in
narrative fiction, from 19th century folk and fairy tales through
21st century fantasy, dystopia, and science fiction. Suggesting
that the appeal of these and other nonmimetic genres is largely
predicated on the dream of justice, Oziewicz theorizes new justice
scripts as conceptual tools essential to help humanity survive the
qualitative leap toward an environmentally conscious, culturally
diversified global world. This book is an important contribution to
studies of children's and YA speculative fiction, adding a new
perspective to discussions about the educational as well as social
potential of nonmimetic genres. It demonstrates that the justice
imperative is very much alive in YA speculative fiction, creating
new visions of justice relevant to contemporary challenges.
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