Soldier, Beauty, and the Bird : Fragmentation of Gender Identity in The Hunger Games
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Perspectives on Gender in North America |
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| Web | http://stella.uniba.sk/texty/AA_gender.pdf |
| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | androgyne of manners; image; The Hunger Games; surface; appearance; form; Katniss; social media; Paglia |
| Description | This paper focuses on the heroine Katniss Everdeen from the popular American franchise The Hunger Games. It uses this strong literary character in order to examine gender androgyny and flexibility of the self to adapt to different social circumstances. Katniss needs to face some extreme situations, in which it may seem that her gender features are blurred into an androgynous figure that does not possess a fixed self but that serves as a reflection of the outside world. Katniss’s gender identity displays both masculine and feminine characteristics and she also undergoes a complete depersonalization of the self when she is turned into a mere symbol of rebellion. By putting Katniss’s real gender identity in question, Suzanne Collins reveals that what defines the contemporary young American generation are the outside social forces of commerce, fashion and social media. |
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