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Bach, J., Peters, E., & Bourgeois, J. (2019). Teaching Students the “What-Ifs”: Conversations on YA Speculative Fiction. The English Journal, 109, 39-46.
https://doi.org/10.58680/ej201930379

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• TITLE: “Forget about Eden”: (Violations of) Children’s Rights in The Last Book in the Universe

  AUTHORS: Gwynne Ellen Ash

  KEYWORDS: Children’s Science Fiction, Young Adult Science Fiction, Children’s Rights, Human Rights, Dystopia, Post-Apocalypse

  JOURNAL NAME: Advances in Literary Study, Vol.12 No.2, April 17, 2024

  ABSTRACT: Dystopian tales, both post-apocalyptic wastelands and carefully manicured ultramodern utopias, offer the opportunity to demonstrate what can happen when human rights are not respected and upheld. This paper examines the violations of children’s rights in the novel The Last Book in the Universe (Philbrick, 2000). Using the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNICEF, 1989) as a framework for analysis, the paper investigates how science fiction can communicate children’s rights to them, through negative examples of their violations.