About this volume / Lana A. Whited -- On Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games Trilogy / Suzanne Collins : one life, three acts, scripted by war / Laurie Adams -- Lotteries and scapegoats : literary antecedents and influences on The Hunger Games Trilogy / Tina L. Hanlon -- Dystopian copycat or YA lit on fire? The critical reception of The Hunger Games novels / Rebelling against the rebellion : frustrating readerly desire in Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay / Jackie C. Horne -- His fordship in the capitol and big brother in the districts : The Hunger Games and the modern dystopian tradition / Amy H. Sturgis -- "You love me. Real" : gender in The Hunger Games Trilogy / Danielle Bienvenue Bray -- Game macabre : fear as an essential element in The Hunger Games / Rebecca Sutherland Borah -- "Where you can starve to death in safety" : Appalachia and The Hunger Games / Elizabeth Baird Hardy -- "What I did was a radical thing" : Panem's corrupted gift economy / Amy Bennett-Zendzian -- "As long as you can find yourself, you'll never starve" : consuming Katniss in The Hunger Games Trilogy / Stephanie Dror -- Pavlov, Peeta, and PTSD : historical and contemporary research on scientific principles underlying hijacking / Louise M. Freeman -- Labyrinthine challenges and degenerate strategies in The Hunger Games / Lars Schmeink -- The girl within the Mockingjay : roman allusions, repercussions of war, and ideological transformation / Amalia L. Selle -- The presidents and power : Machiavellian elements in The Hunger Games series / Todd Ide -- The Hunger Games series as text for the democracy, justice, and civic engagement classroom / Sandra Via