my last 2 Girls of Color in Dystopia posts
Two months have flown by!
My last post for the Girls of Color in Dystopia blog has just gone up on the site.
But before that, I explore how Julianna Baggott and Ellen Oh explore post-bomb dystopia. I mean, getting hit by an atomic bomb is dystopic enough already. But both Baggott and Oh take post-bomb dystopia even further into the horrors of what people in power are capable of doing to their fellow people in Pure and Oh's "The Last Day" in Diverse Energies. You can read that post here: http://bitchmagazine.org/post/life-af...
and then the last post, which just went up, is here: http://bitchmagazine.org/post/great-b...
It's been a great (but breakneck) couple of months in which I read (or reread) 40 books to create 16 blogposts. Of those 40 books, only 14 featured girls of color as protagonists. Of those 14, some of them were in the same series (like Partials, Fragments and Isolation), so they're not really 14 stand-alone dystopic novels with girls of color as protagonists.
And then there were 4 books with girls of color as side characters to either boys/men of color or white girls.
That leaves 22 books with no girls of color in them. Some of those books just don't bother describing their characters, but nothing in their actions or choices gives me an impression that the characters are anything other than white.
I'll be transitioning from writing about YA dystopic fiction to real-world (but still often dystopic) politics for the Bitchmedia site. Stay tuned!
My last post for the Girls of Color in Dystopia blog has just gone up on the site.
But before that, I explore how Julianna Baggott and Ellen Oh explore post-bomb dystopia. I mean, getting hit by an atomic bomb is dystopic enough already. But both Baggott and Oh take post-bomb dystopia even further into the horrors of what people in power are capable of doing to their fellow people in Pure and Oh's "The Last Day" in Diverse Energies. You can read that post here: http://bitchmagazine.org/post/life-af...
and then the last post, which just went up, is here: http://bitchmagazine.org/post/great-b...
It's been a great (but breakneck) couple of months in which I read (or reread) 40 books to create 16 blogposts. Of those 40 books, only 14 featured girls of color as protagonists. Of those 14, some of them were in the same series (like Partials, Fragments and Isolation), so they're not really 14 stand-alone dystopic novels with girls of color as protagonists.
And then there were 4 books with girls of color as side characters to either boys/men of color or white girls.
That leaves 22 books with no girls of color in them. Some of those books just don't bother describing their characters, but nothing in their actions or choices gives me an impression that the characters are anything other than white.
I'll be transitioning from writing about YA dystopic fiction to real-world (but still often dystopic) politics for the Bitchmedia site. Stay tuned!
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