Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction

Victoria Flanagan is a senior lecturer in English at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, and the convenor of the MA in Children's Literature. Her research focuses on transgressive gender representations and the application of posthuman ideology to children's texts. She is the author of Into the Closet: Cross-dressing and the Gendered Body in Children's Literature and Film (2008).

"Victoria Flanagan's Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction offers an engaging exploration of technology in young adult ... fiction, including ideas of identity, embodiment, subjectivity and individual agency in posthuman fiction. ... She writes engagingly, offering insight and her texts connect through this common thread. ... The sum total is a convincingly written, well-argued and fascinating exploration of the use of the posthuman in YA fiction." (Katherine Ford, The British Society of Literature and Science, bsls.ac.uk, January, 2016)

• Introduction 1. Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction 2. Narrating Posthuman Subjectivity 3. Digital Citizenship in the Posthuman Era 4. Reworking the Female Subject: Technology and the Body in Posthuman Adolescent Fiction 5. Surveillance Societies: Privacy and Power in YA fiction 6. Subjectivity in Cyberspace: Techno-realism and the Merging of Virtual and Material Selves Conclusion Bibliography Index