A Garota em chamas: como gênero e mídia são representados na obra distópica juvenil Jogos vorazes

Abstract

With the recent increase of Young Adult Literature since the release of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in 1997, especially dystopian Young Adult literature with the release of The Hunger Games in 2008 in the United States, it is necessary to further more academic studies of these works, having as the studied work here The Hunger Games trilogy (2010 -2011), by Suzanne Collins. Dystopian literature, speaking about future and distant societies, speaks about current and close societies. These delight the youth, who, many times, see themselves as the characters in these stories.. For such, as a theoretical and methodological foundation, it is necessary to explore the meaning of young adult literature, using the researchers Daniels (2006), Crowe (1998), Cart (2010); As well as, therefore, the question of adolescence (GILLIS; SIMPSON, 2015), its target audience. In addition, a definition for dystopian literature will be provided (VIEIRA, 2010; CLAEYS, 2010; 2017), and young adult dystopian literature (Basu; Broad; Hintz, 2013), mainly the young adult dystopia with female protagonist, the “girls on fire” (HENTGES, 2018). Moreover, the trilogy is analyzed in the context of its representations of gender, using the theory of Judith Butler (2022) of gender as performance, the research of Connell and Pearse (2015) about the definition of gender, and the questions of media and political propaganda that exist in the narrative, according to Noam Chomsky (2014)