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Katniss, Military Bratness: Military Culture in Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games Trilogy
- Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 44, 2016
- pp. 172-191
- 10.1353/chl.2016.0016
- Article
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Abstract:
Collins was raised in a military family, and military culture influences the society she creates in The Hunger Games. Katniss is military daughter, a fighter herself, and finally a terrified parent; in her, Collins explores the challenges of being a female warrior in what is typically a masculine context.