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Abstract
Battis's edited volume Supernatural Youth: The Rise of the Teen Hero in Popular Culture argues that supernatural youth in novels, television shows, and comics offer inspiration for marginalized adolescents, particularly those marginalized by heteronormativity. This argument is well supported by almost half of the chapters; those chapters are discussed in most detail in this review. Most of the remaining chapters are also discussed, albeit more briefly, in terms of their potential support of Battis's argument.
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Mary Catherine Miller
Mary Catherine Miller is a doctoral student at the Ohio State University studying literature for children and young adults. Her research interests include fantasy and dystopian literature, popular culture and multimodal texts, and LGBTQ young adult literature.
Mollie V. Blackburn
Mollie V. Blackburn is a professor of teaching and learning at the Ohio State University. She is the author of Interrupting Hate: Homophobia in Schools and What Literacy Can Do About It and a coeditor of Acting Out! Combating Homophobia Through Teacher Activism and Literacy Research for Political Action.