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Authors:

Adami, Valentina

Title:

The Pedagogical Value of Young-Adult Speculative Fiction: Teaching Environmental Justice through Julie Bertagna’s Exodus

Year:

2019

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Referee:

Sì

Name of journal:

POLEMOS

ISSN of journal:

2036-4601

N° Volume:

13.1

Page numbers:

127-147

Keyword:

Young-adult literature, speculative fiction, young-adult dystopia, environmental justice, human rights, storytelling, Julie Bertagna, Exodus

Short description of contents:

The environmental crisis is one of the most pressing societal concerns today. Speculative fiction frequently questions current political, legal and cultural attitudes by portraying future scenarios in which some ecological disaster has changed the world order. Scottish children’s author Julie Bertagna has given her contribution to these speculations on the consequences of letting current trends in environmental behaviour continue unchallenged with her young-adult novel Exodus (2002), part of a trilogy continued in 2007 with Zenith and completed in 2011 with Aurora. This paper explores the pedagogical value of young-adult speculative fiction and examines Bertagna’s survival narrative as a questioning of environmental justice, in the light of contemporary theories on young-adult fiction, ecocriticism and human rights.

Product ID:

109486

Handle IRIS:

11562/997770

Last Modified:

November 15, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Adami, Valentina, The Pedagogical Value of Young-Adult Speculative Fiction: Teaching Environmental Justice through Julie Bertagna’s Exodus «POLEMOS» , vol. 13.1 , 2019 , pp. 127-147

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