The Metamorphosis of Katniss Everdeen: The Hunger Games, Myth, and Femininity
Journal article, 2015
This essay articulates the ties between the heroine of The Hunger Games, the goddess Artemis, and the mythic character Philomela. Both Artemis and Philomela offer Katniss Everdeen different models of femininity, but ultimately she rejects inherited models and makes her own.
literary criticism
femininity
mythology
hunger games
Author
Kathryn Strong Hansen
The Citadel
Children's Literature Association Quarterly
0885-0429 (ISSN)
Vol. 40 2 161-178Subject Categories
Languages and Literature
Classical Archaeology and Ancient History
DOI
10.1353/chq.2015.0020