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African American Adolescent Female Heroes - The Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative (Hardcover)
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African American Adolescent Female Heroes - The Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative (Hardcover)
Series: Children's Literature Association Series
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In the wake of the second wave of the Black Lives Matter movement,
inequalities and disparities were brought to light across the
publishing industry. The need for more diverse, representative
young adult literature gained new traction, resulting in an influx
of young adult speculative fiction featuring African American young
women. While the #BlackGirlMagic movement inspired a wave of
positive African American female heroes in young adult fiction, it
is still important to acknowledge the history and legacy of
enslavement in America and their impact on literature. Many of the
depictions of young Black women in contemporary speculative fiction
still rely on stereotypical representations rooted in American
enslavement. African American Adolescent Female Heroes: The
Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative investigates
the application of the neo-slave narrative structure to the
twenty-first-century young adult text. Author Melanie A. Marotta
examines texts featuring a female, adolescent protagonist of color,
including Orleans, Tankborn, The Book of Phoenix, Binti, and The
Black God's Drums, as well as series like the Devil's Wake series,
Octavia E. Butler's Parable series, and the Dread Nation series.
Taken together, these chapters seek to analyze whether the roles
for adolescent female characters of color are changing or whether
they remain re-creations of traditional slave narrative roles.
Further, the chapters explore if trauma, healing, and activism are
enacted in this genre.
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