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Several assumptions surround popular discourse about Suzanne Collins’s commercially successful Hunger Games series, including one that regards Katniss Everdeen, its protagonist, as offering young female readers access to a newly empowered subject position.
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Connors, S.P. (2014). “I Try to Remember Who I am and Who I am Not”. In: Connors, S.P. (eds) The Politics of Panem. Critical Literacy Teaching Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-806-0_9
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