Witches, Monsters, and Questions of Nation: Humans and Non-Humans in Akata Witch and Trail of Lightning
Two very different YA novels – one set in Nigeria, the other on a Navajo (Dineh) reservation in the United States – present similarly paradoxical answers to the question about what it means to be human. Both Akata Witch (2011), by Nnedi Okorafor, and Trail of Lightning (2018), by Rebecca Roanhorse s...
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| Language: | English |
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Fincham Press
2020-11-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Young Adult Literature |
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| Online Access: | https://ijyal.ac.uk/articles/10.24877/ijyal.33 |