Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction: The Posthuman Subject

by V. Flanagan

Overview

Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction is not a historical study or a survey of narrative plots, but takes a more conceptual approach that engages with the central ideas of posthumanism: the fragmented nature of posthuman identity, the concept of agency as distributed and collective and the role of embodiment in understandings of selfhood.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349472529
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/15/2014
Series:	Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
Edition description:	1st ed. 2014
Pages:	205
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Victoria Flanagan is a senior lecturer in English at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, and the convenor of the MA in Children's Literature. Her research focuses on transgressive gender representations and the application of posthuman ideology to children's texts. She is the author of Into the Closet: Cross-dressing and the Gendered Body in Children's Literature and Film (2008).

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction 2. Narrating Posthuman Subjectivity 3. Digital Citizenship in the Posthuman Era 4. Reworking the Female Subject: Technology and the Body in Posthuman Adolescent Fiction 5. Surveillance Societies: Privacy and Power in YA fiction 6. Subjectivity in Cyberspace: Techno-realism and the Merging of Virtual and Material Selves Conclusion Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

An ambitious project in the Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature Series … . Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction: The Posthuman Subject is a wellthought- out and excellently argued book. The author manages to present a positive image of posthumanism in YA literature as a driving force behind novel identities of the digital age and offers numerous insightful ideas that even those readers who do not normally engage with posthumanism will enjoy.” (Robert Gadowski, International Research in Children's Literature, Vol. 9 (2), December, 2016)

“Victoria Flanagan’s Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction offers an engaging exploration of technology in young adult … fiction, including ideas of identity,embodiment, subjectivity and individual agency in posthuman fiction. … She writes engagingly, offering insight and her texts connect through this common thread. … The sum total is a convincingly written, well-argued and fascinating exploration of the use of the posthuman in YA fiction.” (Katherine Ford, The British Society of Literature and Science, bsls.ac.uk, January, 2016)

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