The politics of Panem : : challenging genres / / edited by Sean P. Connors.

The Hunger Games trilogy is a popular culture success. Embraced by adults as well as adolescents, Suzanne Collins’s bestselling books have inspired an equally popular film franchise. But what, if anything, can reading the Hunger Games tell us about what it means to be human in the world today? What...

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Superior document:Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors and Genre
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Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam, The Netherlands : : Sense Publishers,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Language:English
Series:Critical literacy teaching series, challenging authors and genre ; Volume 6.
Physical Description:1 online resource (227 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Sean P. Connors
  • Introduction / Sean P. Connors
  • “Some Walks You Have to Take Alone” / Roberta Seelinger Trites
  • Worse Games To Play? / Susan S. M. Tan
  • Hungering for Middle Ground / Meghann Meeusen
  • The Three Faces of Evil / Brian McDonald
  • “I Was Watching You, Mockingjay” / Sean P. Connors
  • Exploiting the Gaps in the Fence / Michael Macaluso and Cori McKenzie
  • “It’s Great to Have Allies As Long As You Can Ignore the Thought That You’ll Have to Kill Them” / Anna O. Soter
  • “I Try to Remember Who I Am and Who I Am Not” / Sean P. Connors
  • “We End Our Hunger for Justice!” / Rodrigo Joseph Rodríguez
  • “She Has No Idea. The Effect She Can Have” / Hilary Brewster
  • Are the -Isms Ever in Your Favor? / Iris Shepard and Ian Wojcik-Andrews
  • The Revolution Starts With Rue / Antero Garcia and Marcelle Haddix
  • Afterword: Why Are Strong Female Characters Not Enough? / P. L. Thomas
  • Author Biographies / Sean P. Connors.