Posthuman Girlhoods in Canadian Young Adult Science Fiction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction
5. ReVisions: Speculating in Literature and Film in Canada 1
6. Connecting Past to Future: Anishinaabe Knowledge, Archives, and the Cold War
7. Horrors of Northern Development: (Anti-)Capitalist Infrastructure and Anishinaabe Knowledge in Moon of the Crusted Snow 25
8. Speculative Archives in Novels by Thomas King and Larissa Lai: Hope in the Midst of Crisis 45
9. Speculative Fiction and Historiographic Metafiction: The Cold War in Contemporary Apocalyptic Literary Canada, Coast to Coast 67
10. Interlude
11. Interrupting the Fire with Story: An Interview with Cherie Dimaline 85
12. Crossing Over: Dystopian and Posthuman Futures for Young People
13. Indigenous Resurgence and Resistance in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves and Hunting by Stars 95
14. Posthuman Girlhoods in Canadian Young Adult Science Fiction 117
15. Climate Change and the Girl Body: Hope and the Dystopian Future in Three Novels by Monica Hughes 139
16. Interlude
17. Othering ad Infinitum: A Critical-Creative Examination of the Secular and Spiritual in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring 161
18. Creating Communities: Consumption and Hunger in Dystopian Cities and Prisons
19. Small Acts of Urban Place-Making in Nalo Hopkinson’s Skin Folk 179
20. The Possibilities of Prison Food in Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last 203
21. “Like the Voice of a Mad Angel”: Hungry Ghosts in Kai Cheng Thom’s Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir 225
22. Interlude
23. Someone Is Dead 247
24. Apocalyptic World-Making: Comic Books, Enclosed Spaces, and Short Stories
25. Other Worlds within Other Worlds: Comics World-Building and Identity Formation in Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven 263
26. Gender Oppression through Enclosed Spaces in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy 281
27. “Show Me You’re Still Human”: Uncertainty and Humanity in Apocalyptic Short Stories by Canadian Women Writers 303
28. Interlude
29. Children of the Affect 329
30. Gender and Indigeneity: Apocalyptic and Dystopian Film and Television
31. What If the Natives Were Immune? Dismembering Colonial Masculinity in Jeff Barnaby’s Blood Quantum 345
32. Vision and Re-Visioning in The Handmaid’s Tale and Two Adaptations 363
33. “I’m Not Your Personal Manic Pixie Assassin”: Reading Killjoys’ Tough Woman through an Alien Lens 383
34. Contributors 407
35. Index 411