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International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · 9d

Through her empathetic and cathartic exploration of fire, Fox writes fiction for the Anthropocene generation, making climate change and activism accessible, and empowering young voices and validating their personal experiences.

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · 9d

In The Quiet and the Loud (2023), set during the 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires in Australia, Helena Fox navigates the complexities of despair and hope, slow violence or attritional environmental destruction and solastalgia (distress and loss felt due to negative change to the environment).

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International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · 9d

The article argues that bushfires in Australian YA literature provide a point of access for readers to consider the global, complex problem of climate change and its devastating effects while portraying the experiences of climate anxiety and activism.

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International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · 9d

@annikaherb.bsky.social's “‘Everywhere’s Burning’: Realising Climate Change and Activism Through Bushfires in Australian Young Adult Literature” is is available to read/download for free in Volume 5 of IJYAL:
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International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Sep 1

It also explores Meyer’s representation of the future Earth and her commentary on ecological issues. The novel paints a sharp contrast between the countryside and the cityscape, with the the city being the main locus of danger. It advocates for a stronger link between humans and nature.

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Sep 1

The article presents an ecocritical analysis of the motifs of the forest and the wolf in Scarlet, tracing their transformation from the traditional versions of “Little Red Riding Hood”. They are treated as having innate value intead of serving only as metaphors for human concerns.

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International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Sep 1

Marissa Meyers’ Scarlet is the second instalment in her speculative fiction series, The Lunar Chronicles. Loosely based on “Little Red Riding Hood”, the novel centres on Scarlet Benoit and her endeavour to save her kidnapped grandmother with the help of Ze’ev Kesley, nicknamed “Wolf”.

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International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Sep 1

Valentina Markasović’s article “Wolves in the Woods: An Ecocritical Analysis of Natural Motifs in Marissa Meyer’s Scarlet” is is available to read/download for free in Volume 5 of IJYAL:
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International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Aug 5

The article argues that these works inadvertently reinforce humanist binaries, and that the reading of such hybrid characters needs to pay closer attention to the subjecthood it is seeking to problematise.

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Aug 5

In the author’s own trilogy, The Burning Days, the use of chimeric creatures relies on breaking down binary oppositions to create species alliance, but the work consistently falls back on essentialism to justify similarity.

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International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Aug 5

In Ambeline Kwaymullina’s The Tribe trilogy, the human-animal connection is a speaking-to, rather than an amalgamation-with other species, but the novels are also focused on human extraordinariness.

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International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Aug 5

In Paolo Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker trilogy, the representation of the hybrid monsters, named as half-men, points to a collision of species. Violence and brutality are tied to the canine or animal elements whilst their humanity serves to temper their baser instincts.

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International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Aug 5

This article interrogates the radical potential of hybrid human-animal crossover characters in young adult literature to challenge human exceptionalism and promote interspecies connection. It critically examines the use of such characters in three YA speculative trilogies.

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International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Aug 5

Rachel Hennessy’s article “The Limitations of Posthuman Potentiality: Interspecies Collisions in Three Young Adult Speculative Trilogies” is is available to read/download for free in Volume 5 of IJYAL:
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International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Aug 5

In Ambeline Kwaymullina’s The Tribe trilogy, the human-animal connection is a speaking-to, rather than an amalgamation-with other species, but the novels are also focused on human extraordinariness.

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Aug 5

In Paolo Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker trilogy, the representation of the hybrid monsters named as half-men points to a collision of species. Violence and brutality are tied to the canine or animal elements whilst their humanity serves to temper their baser instincts.

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International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Aug 5

This article takes at its starting point the radical potential of hybrid human-animal crossover characters in young adult literature to challenge human exceptionalism and promote interspecies connection. It critically examines the use of such characters in three YA speculative trilogies.

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International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Jul 13

Lastly, it considers the text’s potential to challenge the norms of whiteness, medicine, and the body present in the larger corpus of YA literature. It ends with a consideration of the implications of teaching When the Moon Was Ours and including trans narratives in the classroom

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Jul 13

It first explores how this novel uses magical realism to disrupt common trans narratives. It then investigates how multiple characters use their cultural knowledge and practices to examine their identities and think about their gender and sexuality.

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International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Jul 13

This article examines Anna-Marie McLemore’s When the Moon Was Ours (2016) through the theory of Queer Transgressive Cultural Capital. It argues that queer and trans characters subvert existing Westernized systems of care and medicine

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International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Jul 13

Summer Melody Pennell, @angeluismatos.bsky.social, and Henry "Cody" Miller’s article “Queer Transgressive Cultural Capital in When the Moon Was Ours” is available to read/download for free in Volume 5 of IJYAL:
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Queer Transgressive Cultural Capital in When the Moon Was Ours | The International Journal of Young Adult Literature

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International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Jul 13

This article examines Anna-Marie McLemore’s novel When the Moon Was Ours (2016) through the theory of Queer Transgressive Cultural Capital. It argues that queer and trans characters subvert existing Westernized systems of care and medicine.

International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Jun 2

These features persist in present-day magical girl stories, as well as related works produced around the world, including popular Anglophone YA fiction. This can provide a richer understanding of the transnational connections between stories for girls.

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International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Jun 2

The protagonists’ personal characteristics, supernatural abilities, social connections, and narrative arcs provides insight into the attributes of the heroine’s journey that Takeuchi considered essential for a true ‘chosen one’.

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International Journal of Young Adult Literature @ijyalnews.bsky.social · Jun 2

It examines Naoko Takeuchi’s girls’ manga series, Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon, the basis of animated television series Sailor Moon and compares it to a companion work, Codename: Sailor V , in order to understand Takeuchi’s innovations with the adolescent female heroine.

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