African American Adolescent Female Heroes


The Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative

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By Melanie A. Marotta
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UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI
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HARDBACK
Dimensions:
216 x 140 mm
Weight:
270 g
Pages:
277

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Melanie A. Marotta is a lecturer in the Department of English and Language Arts at Morgan State University. Marotta's research focuses on American literature, particularly African American literature, young adult literature, the American West, science fiction, and ecocriticism.

For readers of YA science fiction novels that feature young Black adolescent protagonists, Marotta's premise is astute. African American Adolescent Female Heroes: The Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative speaks to the need for a reading of protagonists that takes into consideration gender identity, ethnicity, and age to recognize the significance of the protagonists' trauma, healing, and activism.--Kiedra B. Taylor "MELUS" With the recent stress on diverse voices in children's and young adult literature, African American Adolescent Female Heroes: The Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative provides an important intervention in science fiction studies, as it speaks to the female African American experience, an underserved audience generally and specifically within this genre.--Balaka Basu, associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and coeditor of Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers

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