The Truths of Monsters: Coming of Age with Fantastic Media

ISBN-13: 9781476683485 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 257 str.

Ildikó Limpár

Opis

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Spis treści

Acknowledgments vi
Introduction: Monsters Roaming the Space of Coming of Age 1
Part I—Monstrous Family Matters
1. The Monstrous Friend and Lover: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga 16
2. Apocalyptic Monsters in Need of a Family: Daryl Gregory's Raising Stony Mayhall and M.R. Carey's The Girl with All the Gifts 36
3. The Rebellious Child: Jon Skovron's Man Made Boy and Sarah Maria Griffin's Spare and Found Parts 58
4. Oppressed Daughters and Oppressing Fathers: Theodora Goss's The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club Series 81
Part II—The Monstrous Wilderness of the Teenage Mind
5. Dangerous and Safe Spaces: Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book and Coraline 100
6. Destructive and Healing Psychic Landscape: Siobhan Dowd and Patrick Ness's A Monster Calls 121
7. Spaces of Escape for the Abused: Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children Series 140
Part III—Inhuman(e) Frontiers of Growing Up
 8. Alien New World Wilderness: Patrick Ness's Chaos Walking Trilogy 160
 9. "Muttated" New World Garden: The Hunger Games Trilogy 181
10. Frankensteinian Wild West for Adults Growing Up: HBO's Westworld 197
Conclusion 219
Chapter Notes 225
Works Cited 235
Index 247