Power and belonging in posthuman young adult fiction

What is it about?

This analysis of two young adult novels, Kevin Brooks' iBoy and Brian Caswell's A Cage of Butterflies, argues that novels' use of the speculative fiction form addresses posthuman concerns within a contemporary realism framework.

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Why is it important?

The transformation of ordinary humans into ‘accidental’ posthumans described in A Cage of Butterflies and iBoy pushes both novels into general (and contemporary realistic) young adult territory, and opens up the possibility of a sub-genre of young adult literature that includes posthuman characters but is otherwise realistic.