Contributions 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 Race in Young Adult Speculative
Fiction 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. Essays explore such
notable and popular works as the Divergent series, The Red Queen,
The Lunar Chronicles, and the Infernal Devices 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.
Contributors 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.
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