Basu, Balaka, Katherine Broad and Carrie Hintz, eds. Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults; Brave New Teenagers. New York: Routledge, 2013. This collection of essays examines the modern YA trend toward dystopian literature. Authors analyze why classics such as The Hunger Games, The House of the Scorpions and Divergent have found such solid foundation in the modern readers’ canon.
Beal, Jane. “Ending Dystopia; The Feminist Critique of Culture in Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games Trilogy,” in Worlds Gone Awry: Essays on Dystopian Fiction, edited by John J. Han, C. Clark Triplett and Ashley G. Anthony. Jefferson, NC: McFarland &Company Incorporated, 2018. In this essay, Jane Beal looks closely at Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy through the lens of feminist dystopian literature.
Fitting, Peter. Utopian Effects Dystopian Pleasures. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2021. This collection of essays written by a recognized scholar of utopian literature examines how utopian and dystopian narratives are shaping the modern world.
Han, John J.,C. Clark Triplett and Ashley G. Anthony, editors. Worlds Gone Awry: Essays on Dystopian Fiction. McFarland & Company: Jefferson, NC, 2018. A collection of essays on a variety of modern dystopian novels.
Harrison, Jennifer. Posthumanist Readings in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction: Negotiating the Nature/Culture Divide. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. A post humanist reading of six young adult texts.
Lemann, Nicholas. “The Limits of Clear Language.” Columbia Journalism Review. November 8, 2007. This Pulitzer Prize winning journalist examines how Orwell’s 1946 essay, “Politics and the English Language” can be interpreted through current geo-political developments.
Lynskey, Dorian. The Ministry of Truth; The Biography of George Orwell’s 1984. New York; Doubleday, 2019. This brilliantly written examination of 1984 reveals much about Orwell and the book that made him the father of modern dystopian literature.
Packer, George. Doublethink is Stronger than Orwell Imagined; What 1984 Means Today. July, 2019, The Atlantic. The author examines George Orwell’s classic in today’s information age and the management of the concept of political truth.
Soares, Michael A. “Here’s Looking at You Kids: The Urgency of Dystopian Texts in the Secondary Classroom” in Worlds Gone Awry: Essays on Dystopian Fiction, edited by John J. Han, C. Clark Triplett and Ashley G. Anthony. Jefferson, NC: McFarland &Company Incorporated, 2018.
Tatar, Maria. The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales. Princeton; Princeton University Press, 2003. A fascinating study of the Grimm Brothers’ world through a lens examining the darker side of the infamous fairy tales.
