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Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction
A. Curry
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Description for Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction
Paperback. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 305.
This pioneering study is the first full-length treatment of feminism and the environment in children's literature. Drawing on the history, philosophy and ethics of ecofeminism, it examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic landscapes in young adult fiction reflect contemporary attitudes towards environmental crisis and human responsibility.
This pioneering study is the first full-length treatment of feminism and the environment in children's literature. Drawing on the history, philosophy and ethics of ecofeminism, it examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic landscapes in young adult fiction reflect contemporary attitudes towards environmental crisis and human responsibility.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
Series
Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349444243
SKU
V9781349444243
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Ref
99-15
About A. Curry
ALICE CURRY is an Honorary Associate of Macquarie University in Sydney and the Advisor, Children's Literature to the Commonwealth Education Trust in London. With degrees from Oxford University and Macquarie University, she is the author of several academic articles and the editor of A River of Stories: Tales and Poems from Across the Commonwealth, illustrated by Jan Pienkowski.
Reviews for Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction
'The six main chapters chart a winding path that allows Curry's discursive trajectory to constantly dip into and out of her chosen novels at will, thereby casting a critical eye over topics such as climate change, posthumanism, spirituality, social justice, ecophobia, identity politics, globalisation and the neoliberal hegemonic and patriarchal power structures that exist to dominate human beings and the ... Read more