Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

“We End our Hunger for Justice!”

Social Responsibility in The Hunger Games Trilogy

  • Chapter
The Politics of Panem

Part of the book series: Critical Literacy Teaching Series ((LITE))

  • 1570 Accesses

Abstract

The telling of stories through literature, especially through adventurous, postapocalyptic novels with death-defying odds and trials, serves the purpose of informing readers about other worlds and introducing them to societies they may recognize as resembling their own.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 49.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  • Alsup, J. (2014). More than a ‘time of stress and storm’: The complex depiction of adolescent identity in contemporary young adult novels. In C. Hill (Ed.), The critical merits of young adult literature: Coming of age (pp. 28-37). New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Anaya, R. A. (1998). What good is literature in our time? American Literary History, 10(3), 471-477.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Basu, B., Broad, K. R., & Hintz, C. (2013). Introduction. In B. Basu, K. R. Broad, & C. Hintz (Eds.), Contemporary dystopian fiction for young adults: Brave new teenagers (pp. 1-17). New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Blasingame, J. (2009). An interview with Suzanne Collins. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 52(8), 726-727.

    Google Scholar 

  • Collins, S. (2008). The hunger games. New York: Scholastic.

    Google Scholar 

  • Collins, S. (2009). Catching fire. New York: Scholastic.

    Google Scholar 

  • Collins, S. (2010). Mockingjay. New York: Scholastic.

    Google Scholar 

  • Harjo, J. (2008). She had some horses: Poems. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hill, C. (Ed.). (2014). The critical merits of young adult literature: Coming of age. New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Nilsen, A. P., & Donelson, K. L. (2009). Literature for today’s young adults (8th ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

    Google Scholar 

  • Selvester, P. M., & Summers, D. G. (2012). Socially responsible literacy: Teaching adolescents for purpose and power. New York: Teachers College Press.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Authors
  1. Rodrigo Joseph Rodríguez
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA

    Sean P. Connors

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2014 Sense Publishers

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Rodríguez, R.J. (2014). “We End our Hunger for Justice!”. In: Connors, S.P. (eds) The Politics of Panem. Critical Literacy Teaching Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-806-0_10

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation