Description
African American Adolescent Female Heroes: The Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative investigates the application of the neo-slave narrative structure to the twenty-first-century young adult text. Author Melanie A. Marotta examines texts featuring a female, adolescent protagonist of color, including Orleans, Tankborn, The Book of Phoenix, Binti, and The Black God's Drums, as well as series like the Devil's Wake series, Octavia E. Butler's Parable series, and the Dread Nation series. Taken together, these chapters seek to analyze whether the roles for adolescent female characters of color are changing or whether they remain re-creations of traditional slave narrative roles. Further, the chapters explore if trauma, healing, and activism are enacted in this genre.
About the Author
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.
Book Information
ISBN 9781496844989
Author Melanie A. Marotta
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint University Press of Mississippi
Publisher University Press of Mississippi
Weight(grams) 272g