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Queer Children, Queer Futures: Navigating lifedeath in The Hunger Games
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 48, Number 2, June 2015
- pp. 63-76
- 10.1353/mos.2015.0015
- Article
- Additional Information
This essay revisits Lee Edelman’s work on the futurism of “the Child” by examining contemporary cultural spectacles of dead children, exemplified in The Hunger Games. I will re-evaluate the symbolism of “the Child” a decade after Edelman’s No Future by thinking about the intersections between queer children and killer children.