Critical explorations of young adult literature : identifying and critiquing the canon /
"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, t...
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New York :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2020.
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| Series: | Routledge research in education.
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Table of Contents:
- 1 The Young Adult Canon: A Literary Solar System
- SECTION I The Center of the Canon
- 2 The Giver in Our Midst: Grounding Dystopia as Total Institutions
- 3 "It's Easier Not to Say Anything": Speak Through the Lens of Strategic Formalism
- 4 "Do You See a [Hu]man Sitting Here?" Signifying in Monster
- 5 "Lost, Squared": Reservation Realism and the Borderless Imaginary
- SECTION II Seminal Works
- 6 From Maven to Mentor: The Archetypal Coaches of The Contender
- 7 "Peace at Any Price": A Marxist Reading of The Chocolate War
- 8 Complex Bodies, Complex Decisions: Female Sexuality in Judy Blume's Forever . . .
- 9 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Disrupting the "All-White World of Children's Books"
- 10 More Than Esperanza: Revisiting Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street
- 11 Dominating Gender: Female-Controlled, Decolonizing Power and The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
- SECTION III Contemporaries
- 12 "The Earth Is Speaking to Us": An Ecocritical Approach to Stargirl
- 13 Parties, Pranks, and Privilege: Reading Looking for Alaska Through the Lens of Critical Whiteness
- 14 Attending to Cultural Models in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis
- 15 "So What Am I Supposed to Do Now?" Border Crossing in American Born Chinese
- 16 The Literacy Thief: A New Literacy Studies Analysis of The Book Thief
- Index.
