The Critical Merits of Young Adult Literature

Coming of Age
Herausgeber: Hill, Crag

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Both conceptual and pragmatic, this book examines the literary and pedagogical effectiveness of young adult literature from a critical, research-oriented perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780415819183
• ISBN-10: 0415819180
• Artikelnr.: 39595345

Autorenporträt

Crag Hill is Assistant Professor of English Education at the University of Oklahoma, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Coming of Age with Young Adult Literature through Critical
Analysis, Steve Bickmore
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Introduction: Young Adult Literature and Scholarship Come of
Age, Crag Hill
Chapter Two: More Than a 'Time of Storm and Stress': The Complex Depiction
of Adolescent Identity in Contemporary Young Adult Novels, Janet Alsup
Chapter Three: Sexuality as Risk and Resistance in Young Adult Literature,
Mark Lewis & Sybil Durand
Chapter Four: Hungry Like the Wolf: Gender Non-conformity in YAL, sj Miller
Chapter Five: 'The Worst Form of Violence': Unpacking Portrayals of Poverty
in Young Adult Novels, Janine Darragh & Crag Hill
Chapter Six: 'I was carrying the burden of my race': Reading Matters of
Race and Hope in YA Literature by Walter Dean Myers and Sherman Alexie,
KaaVonia Hinton & Rodrigo Joseph Rodriguez
Chapter Seven: Creating an Eco-warrior: Wilderness and Identity in the
Dystopian World of Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series, Christopher Arigo
Chapter Eight: The Emigrant, Immigrant and Trafficked Experiences of
Adolescents: Young Adult Literature as Window and Mirror, Linda T. Parsons
& Angela Rietschlin
Chapter Nine: Annotated Bibliography, Laura Powers
End Points: Crag Hill
List of Contributors