Gender Games/Trauma Games: Gender and Victimology in the Hunger Games Trilogy
dc.contributor.author | Scherer, Ellen | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-04-15T21:18:27Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-22T14:27:18Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-04-15T21:18:27Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-06-22T14:27:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-08 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/155 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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 I argue that many of the problems associated with the concept of vulnerability come from an outdated and binary way of thinking about gender.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. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | State University of New York at Fredonia | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ | * |
dc.subject | Gender. | en_US |
dc.subject | Traumatism. | en_US |
dc.subject | Hunger Games (Motion picture) | en_US |
dc.title | Gender Games/Trauma Games: Gender and Victimology in the Hunger Games Trilogy | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
refterms.dateFOA | 2020-06-22T14:27:18Z | |
dc.description.institution | SUNY at Fredonia |