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Lashley, Katherine Ann.

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Girls on fire: Gender and disability in "The Hunger Games" and "Divergent".

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Girls on fire: Gender and disability in "The Hunger Games" and "Divergent"./
Author:	Lashley, Katherine Ann.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	263 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-07A(E).
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10244049
ISBN:	9781369544121

Girls on fire: Gender and disability in "The Hunger Games" and "Divergent".
Lashley, Katherine Ann.

Girls on fire: Gender and disability in "The Hunger Games" and "Divergent". - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 263 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Morgan State University, 2016.

This dissertation analyzes gender and disability in The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Divergent by Veronica Roth. The heroines challenge gender norms in their societies, being successful in revising gender norms during their cultures' the rebellions, yet conforming to the established heterosexual patriarchal norms after the rebellions end. These trilogies collapse gender binaries and have empowered female characters who resist traditional gender scripts. They also show characters who deviate from established gender norms, and in doing so, these characters prove that one's gender is not static, nor does it have to be controlled by dominant social proscriptions. However, the female rebels are ultimately contained through a traditional dichotomy: conform to established gender norms or die. The trilogies also engage issues of ability/disability.

ISBN: 9781369544121Subjects--Topical Terms:

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American literature.

Girls on fire: Gender and disability in "The Hunger Games" and "Divergent".
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520 $a The trilogies use three main models of disability in healing the physical and mental disabilities of the characters: the medical model of disability, the social model of disability, and collective memory. At one level, the societies rely on medicine to heal physical injuries and to understand genetic and cognitive "differences." However, the trilogies pose the social model of disability as a better solution as the societies understand and accept difference ultimately to accept everyone as they are. Finally, individual remembering and the collective memory help the characters, and even the readers, to confront the horrible events of the past in a hope that the characters can find a way to survive trauma.
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520 $a The conclusion of this project suggests that contemporary young adult dystopian novels provide necessary analyses of gender and disability in our current society. These novels aid young adult readers in facing the stark realities of key issues in their lives, and encourage them to discover what they can do to make a difference in their own lives and in the lives of others.
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