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Gender Games/Trauma Games: Gender and Victimology in the Hunger Games Trilogy

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Gender.
 Traumatism.
 Hunger Games (Motion picture)
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2015-08
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Fredonia Master's Theses
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In this thesis, I claim that victimhood and vulnerability can be used as a form of agency. I argue that many of the problems associated with the concept of vulnerability come from an outdated and binary way of thinking about gender. A brief review of media and literature reveals that this way of thinking has a history of plaguing the YA novel, thus limiting the ways in which YA readers think about women and vulnerability. Using elements of queer, feminist and trauma critical theory, I prove Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy creates the opportunity for the trauma of victimhood and vulnerability to be used for individual agency.
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