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SUMMARY:Teens and Chaos: Representations of Maturation in YA Dystopian Lit
 erature - Susan Tan\, Faculty of Education
DTSTART:20131127T130000Z
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CONTACT:J. Gilevskaja
DESCRIPTION:This seminar will examine representations of teenagers in popu
 lar culture through the lens of Young Adult (YA) dystopian literature.  Fr
 om its inception in S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders\, YA literature has been
  involved in the portrayal of teenagers as – as Hinton’s title suggest
 s –‘outside’\, removed from the adult world\, disenfranchised\, and 
 centrally\, possessing both a profound capacity to exact change as well as
  the ability to destroy.  Focusing my discussion through the highly popula
 r YA dystopia\, I will look specifically at Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking
  trilogy to explore how these cultural perceptions of adolescents filter t
 hrough to contemporary texts.  This discussion will involve a consideratio
 n of the ways in which modern social anxieties are articulated through the
  distancing of dystopia\, and will explore the ways in which the adolescen
 t disrupts ‘traditional’ binaries of childhood and adulthood\, as the 
 shift from ‘innocence’ to ‘experience’ is complicated by the adole
 scent’s dual vulnerability and power.  
LOCATION:Room 2S5\, Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 
 Hills Road\, Cambridge CB2 8PQ
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