Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction

The Posthuman Subject

V. Flanagan

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English

Palgrave Macmillan
15 December 2014

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Children's literature studies: general

Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature

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.

By: V. Flanagan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 3.747kg
ISBN: 9781137362056
ISBN 10: 1137362057
Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
Pages: 213
Publication Date: 15 December 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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).

Reviews for Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction: The Posthuman Subject

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)