D. Ronald Hadrian (Assistant Professor)
Karpagam Academy of Higher Education, Coimbatore – 641032, Tamilnadu, India.
Abstract
Young Adult fiction has always been looked as a writing that is naïve and predominantly
pointed to a particular audience. But in fact, in the rest years the genre has gained recognition
on its own. It deals with pressing themes from sexuality to alien invasion. This paper tries to
show the current state of contemporary young adult fiction. Climate change, conformity, and
alien invasion might be the important themes that is discussed in dystopian young adult
Literature. But it must also be understood that all these issues are not far off, and they are true
in every manner. Thus, the relevance of dystopian fiction to the present point in literary history is
validated. This paper proses to highlight these issues in the contemporary young adult dystopian
fiction.