Overview
- A timely contribution to current scholarly debates about the ideological representation of digital technology in young adult fiction
- Offers a compelling narrative of how digital life shapes young people's identity and activism through readings of a range of authors such as Salman Rushdie, Cory Doctorow, and Julie Ann Peters
- Engages the critical contemporary issue of posthumanism by providing a sophisticated reading of the complex intersection of young adult bodies with the non-organic.
Part of the book series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature (CRACL)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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“This book is a timely contribution to current scholarly debates about the ideological representation of digital technology in YA fiction. Musgrave argues that a comprehensive critical discourse has emerged in recent years in response to YA science fiction and dystopian fiction, but realism has largely been ignored. This book redresses this situation. Musgrave shows that digital media is reality for young people, evaluating how digital media can both enhance human experience and render it dysfunctional.” (Victoria Flanagan, Senior Lecturer in English, Macquarie University, Australia, and author of “Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction”)
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Book Title: Digital Citizenship in Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Literature
Book Subtitle: Imaginary Activism
Authors: Megan L. Musgrave
Series Title: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58173-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-60272-5Published: 12 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95640-1Published: 15 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58173-0Published: 11 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2753-0825
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0833
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 230
Topics: Literature and Technology/Media, Children's Literature, Contemporary Literature, North American Literature