Space and Place in the Hunger Games : New Readings of the Novels / edited by Deidre Anne Evans Garriott, Whitney Elaine Jones and Julie Elizabeth Tyler.
Transgressing the text and playing narrative games : Katniss's narrative, "real or not real?" / Julie Elizabeth Tyler -- Tipping the odds ever in her favor : an exploration of narrative control and agency in the novel and film / Anne M. Canavan and Sarah N. Petrovic -- Katniss and her boys : male readers, the love triangle and identity formation / Whitney Elaine Jones -- The making of the citizen and the politics of maturation / Susan Shau Ming Tan -- The privileged reader as Capitol and learning sympathy through narrative / Ann M.M. Childs -- Recreating the Holocaust : YA dystopia and the young Jewish reader / Adam Levin -- "I have a kind of power that I never knew I possessed" : transformative motherhood and maternal influence / Katie Arosteguy -- Performing the Capitol in digital spaces : the punitive gaze of the Panopticon among fans and critics / Deidre Anne Evans Garriott -- Creating a new ethics : student responses, reality television and audience awareness / Linda J. Rice and Katie Wrabel -- Outside the seam : the construction of and relationship to Panem's nature / Carissa Ann Baker -- Political muttations : "real or not real?" / Bruce Martin.
Summary:
"An international bestseller and the inspiration for a blockbuster film series, Suzanne Collins's dystopian, young adult trilogy The Hunger Games has also attracted attention from literary scholars. While much of the criticism has focused on traditional literary readings, this innovative collection explores the phenomena of place and space in the novels"-- Provided by publisher.
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