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Young Adult Dystopian Literature As Social Change Evolution, Rachel L. Scherzer
Young Adult Dystopian Literature As Social Change Evolution, Rachel L. Scherzer
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Projects
In recent years, the mass popularity of young adult dystopian novels has led literary scholars to question the rise in popularity and the impact of such novels. This project explores the social justice potential of dystopian fiction, especially young adult dystopias, to act as a model for the way that rebellion can be an important and useful tool in standing up against injustice in society.
Using Suzanne Collin’s The Hunger Games, this project argues that young adult dystopian fiction can model for young people a personal evolution in understanding social change and the revolutionary possibility of actively standing up …