Critical Explorations of Young Adult Literature: Identifying and Critiquing the Canon

ISBN-13: 9781032239194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 288 str.

Victor Malo-Juvera; Crag Hill

Opis

Recognizing the determination of a canon as an ongoing process of discussion and debate, which helps us to better understand the concept of meaningful and important literature, this edited collection turns a critical spotlight on Young Adult Literature (YAL) to explore some of the most read, taught, and discussed books of our time.

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Preface

1. The Young Adult Canon: A Literary Solar System
Victor Malo-Juvera and Crag Hill

Section I: The Center of the Canon
2. The Giver in Our Midst: Grounding Dystopia as Total Institutions
Michael Macaluso, Katie Macaluso, and Darby Evans
3. “It’s Easier not to Say Anything”: Speak through the Lens of Strategic Formalism
Cori McKenzie
4. “Do You See a [Hu]man Sitting Here?”: Signifying in Monster
KaaVonia Hinton
5. "Lost, Squared": Reservation Realism and the Borderless Imaginary
Angela Sparks

Section II: Seminal Works
6. From Maven to Mentor: The Archetypal Coaches of The Contender
Luke Rodesiler and Mark Lewis
7. “Peace at Any Price”: A Marxist Reading of The Chocolate War
William C. Sewell
8. Complex Bodies, Complex Decisions: Female Sexuality in Judy Blume’s Forever...
Julianna E. Lopez Kershen
9. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Disrupting the “All-White World of Children’s Books”
Chris Crowe and Jace Brown
10. More than Esperanza: Revisiting Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street
Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez
11. Dominating Gender: Female-Controlled, Decolonizing Power and The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Rachel L. Carazo

Section III: Contemporaries
12. "The Earth is Speaking to Us": An Ecocritical Approach to Stargirl
Merrilyne Lundahl
13. Parties, Pranks, and Privilege: Reading Looking for Alaska through the Lens of Critical Whiteness
Brandon Sams and Ashley Boyd
14. Attending to Cultural Models in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis
Sean Connors
15. “So what am I supposed to do now?”: Border Crossing in American Born Chinese
Lisa Scherff
16. The Literacy Thief: A New Literacy Studies Analysis of The Book Thief
Mary McCulley

O autorze

Victor Malo-Juvera is Associate Professor of English education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA.

Crag Hill is Associate Professor of English education at the University of Oklahoma, USA.