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Of Bread, Blood and The Hunger Games: Critical Essays on the Suzanne Collins Trilogy

Of Bread, Blood and The Hunger Games: Critical Essays on the Suzanne Collins Trilogy

Pharr, Mary F.
Clark, Leisa A.
Palumbo, Donald E.

Paperback

Series: Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Book 35

Literary CriticismFilm Studies

ISBN10: 0786470194
ISBN13: 9780786470198
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Jul 24 2012
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

This collection of fresh essays on Suzanne Collins's epic trilogy spans multiple disciplines. The contributors probe the trilogy's meaning using theories grounded in historicism, feminism, humanism, queer theory, as well as cultural, political, and media studies. The essayists demonstrate diverse perspectives regarding Collins's novels but their works have three elements in common: an appreciation of the trilogy as literature, a belief in its permanent value, and a need to share both appreciation and belief with fellow readers. The 21 essays that follow the context-setting introduction are grouped into four parts: Part I History, Politics, Economics, and Culture, Part II Ethics, Aesthetics, and Identity, Part III Resistance, Surveillance, and Simulacra, and Part IV Thematic Parallels and Literary Traditions. A core bibliography of dystopian and postapocalyptic works is included, with emphasis on the young adult category--itself an increasingly crucial part of postmodern culture.

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