Tell Freedom I said Hello

Issues in Contemporary Young Adult Dystopian Fiction

edited by Christian Ludwig and Nicole Maruo-Schroder

Book cover: Tell Freedom I said Hello

Extent: 287 pages

Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: anglistik & englischunterricht

Series volume number: 88

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(January 2019)

ISBN: 9783825368753

5.28 x 8.27 inches

Price: $39.00

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Despite its popularity, the newest wave of dystopian narratives is often viewed as derivative and deficient. This collection proposes a different, more nuanced viewpoint, arguing that contemporary dystopian fiction changes and updates genre conventions to tackle controversial and contemporary issues in complex ways, such as environmental destruction (Julie Bertagna’s ‘Exodus’ (2002), Sacci Lloyd’s ‘The Carbon Diaries: 2015/2017’ (2009, 2010), Julianna Baggott’s ‘Pure’ (2012)), the effects of bio-technological progress gone awry (Lauren DeStefano’s ‘Chemical Garden’ trilogy (2011-2013), Karen Sandler’s ‘Tankborn’ (2011)), or the consequences of war (Lauren Oliver’s ‘Delirium’ (2011)). While the volume’s first part collects essays that approach dystopia from a literary and cultural studies perspective, the second part explores the potential that texts such as Veronica Roth’s ‘Divergent’ (2011), Suzanne Collin’s ‘The Hunger Games’ (2008) or David Macaulay’s graphic novel ‘BAA’ (1985) have for the EFL classroom.

  • Edited by Christian Ludwig
  • Edited by Nicole Maruo-Schroder