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Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction
Travel, Technology, Time
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Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction: Travel, Technology, Time intersects considerations about children's and youth's agency with the popular culture genre of science fiction. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency in children's lives, this collection places science fiction at the heart of this endeavor. Retellings of the past, narratives of the present, and new landscapes of the future, each explored in science fiction, allow for creative reimaginings of the capabilities, movements, and agency of youth. Core themes of generation, embodiment, family, identity, belonging, gender, and friendship traverse across the chapters and inform the contributors' readings of various film, literature, television, and virtual media sources. Here, children and youth are heterogeneous, and agency as a central analytical concept is interrogated through interdisciplinary, intersectional, intergenerational, and posthuman analyses. The contributors argue that there is vast power in science fiction representations of children's agency to challenge accepted notions of neoliberal agency, enhance understandings of agency in childhood studies, and further contextualize agency in the lives, voices, and cultures of youth.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Girl Zombies and Boy Wonders: The Future of Agency is Now!
- Part I: THE PAST
- Chapter One: âWhy Are You Keeping This Curiosity Door Locked?â: Childhood Subjectivities and Play as Conflict Resolution in the Postmodern Web Series Stranger Things
- Chapter Two: âIt Was a Wonder I Was Even Bornâ: Reversing the Technical Performance of Childhood in Back to the Future
- Chapter Three: In the Shadow of the Claw: Jubilee, X-23, and the Mutated Possibilities of Youth Agency across Generations in the World of the X-Men
- Part II: THE PRESENT
- Chapter Four: Biker Gangs and Boyhood Agency in Akira
- Chapter Five: From Tribute to Mockingjay: Representations of Katniss Everdeenâs Agency in the Hunger Games Series
- Chapter Six: The Yoke of Childhood: Misgivings about Childrenâs Relationship to Technology in Contemporary Science Fiction
- Chapter Seven: âShip Warsâ and the OTP: Narrating Desire, Literate Agency, and Emerging Sexualities in Fanfiction of The 100
- Part III: THE FUTURE
- Chapter Eight: A Pedagogy of Childhood Agency: Teaching Power of Youth in the Ender Universe
- Chapter Nine: Sanctuary and Agency in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
- Chapter Ten: The Emergence of Agency after Bionuclear War: Posthuman ChildâAnimal Possibilities
- Afterword: The Children of Wonder
- Index
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors