Loretta M. Gaffney

Young Adult Literature, Libraries, and Conservative Activism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Young Adult Literature, Libraries, and Conservative Activism analyzes young adult (YA) literature as a cultural phenomenon, explaining why this explosion of books written for and marketed to teen readers has important consequences for proponents of teen literacy. It explains how YA literature has become a lightning rod for a variety of aesthetic, pedagogical, and popular literature controversies and illustrates why teachers and librarians have a stake in promoting and defending it. Noted scholar Loretta Gaffney not only examines how YA literature is defended and critiqued within the context of rapid cultural and technological changes, but also highlights how struggles about teen reading matter to-and matter in-the future of librarianship and education.

Produktdetails

• Beta Phi Mu Scholars Series
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 397g
• ISBN-13: 9781442264083
• ISBN-10: 144226408X
• Artikelnr.: 45801127

Autorenporträt

By Loretta M. Gaffney

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: How to Read a Young Adult Novel: An Introduction What Is Young
Adult Literature? Golden Age or Dark Age? Histories of Young Adult
Literature Early and Foundational Young Adult Novels YA Goes to School:
Young Adult Literature in the Academy The Politics of Reading: How to Read
YA (And This Book) Chapter Two: Constructing the Teenaged Reader "These
Kids Today": Myths and Stereotypes about Contemporary Teenagers Reading in
Theory Reading in Decline or Reading on the Rise? Print and Digital
Literacies The Politics of Research: Teens and Reading in the Cultural
Crossfire Chapter Three: Tending the Fair Garden: Canon Formation and
Aesthetic Approaches to Young Adult Literature Youth Services Librarianship
and Literary Aesthetics Defending the Canon: Realism v. Fantasy The Rise of
YA Librarianship: Defending Teens' Freedom to Read Chapter Four:
Bibliotherapy and the Problem Novel: Pedagogical Approaches to YA
Literature The Rise of the New Realism The Problem with Problem Novels
"Darkness Too Visible" Triggering the Real Conclusion Chapter Five: The
Uses of Pleasure: Popular Literature and Young Adults Pleasure and Reading
Motivation Libraries and Popular Literature Popular Literature, Dangerous
Reading YA as Pop Literature Intellectual Freedom and Reading Research
Chapter Six: "No Longer Safe": Young Adult Literature and Conservative
Library Activism The Rise of the Pro Family Movement and Conservative
Library Activism Sexual Conservatives, Pornography, and Information The
Trouble with Harry Lessons From West Bend Chapter Seven: Do We Dare Disturb
the Universe? Young Adult Literature and Social Change: A Conclusion Teen
Readers Unite The Politics of Reading YA Literature and Social Change
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