Young Adult Dystopian Literature and Social Critique: Postmodernism, Historicity, and Memory in M.T. Anderson’s Feed”

Ever since Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games became a phenomenal bestseller five years ago, Young Adult dystopian fiction has been the hottest thing going.  But even as it dominates the YA market, the teen-flavored “dystopian romance” has largely given up the dystopian genre’s most vital function: its capacity for social critique.  To recuperate the potential for engaged social critique in YA dystopian fiction, Professor Hanson examines M. T. Anderson’s novel Feed (2002), one of the most critically acclaimed and conceptually brilliant YA novels ever published.