Young Adult Literature and Adolescent Identity Across Cultures and Classrooms (eBook, ePUB)

Contexts for the Literary Lives of Teens
Redaktion: Alsup, Janet

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Taking a critical, research-oriented perspective, this book explores the theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical connections between reading and teaching young adult literature in middle and secondary classrooms and adolescent identity development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136981500
• Artikelnr.: 42983520

Autorenporträt

Janet Alsup is Associate Professor of English Education at Purdue University with a joint appointment in the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Education.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: Identification, Actualization, or Education: Why Teach YA?,
Janet Alsup Part I: Who are the Teens Reading YA? 2 African American Young
Adult Literature and Black Adolescent Identity: Developing a Sense of Self
and Society Through Narrative, Joy Dangora 3 Depictions of Chinese
Americans in Young Adult Literature: American Born Chinese and Beyond, Nai-
Hua Kuo 4 Composing Themselves: The Discursive (De) Construction of Queer
Identity in 6 Young Adult Novels, James R. Gilligan 5 Teaching Through the
Conflict: Examining the Value of Culturally Authentic Arabic Young Adult
Literature, Nisreen Anati 6 Culture and Language: The Two Tongues of
Mexican-American Young Adult Literature, William J. Broz and René Saldaña
Jr. Part II: Why Should Teachers Teach YA? 7 Developing the Moral Identity
Through Young Adult Fantasy Literature, Aliel Cunningham 8 Beyond the
Comics Page: Pedagogical Opportunities and Challenges in Teaching Graphic
Novels, Lisa Schade Eckert 9 Pedagogues and Demigods: Captivity, Pedagogy,
and Young Adult Literature in an Age of Diminished Expectations, Jeff
Spanke 10 Perspective Giving and Taking in the Secondary English Class:
Considering the Case of Erin Gruwell, Jeanne Smith Muzzillo Part III: Why
Are Teens Reading YA? 11 The Appeal of Young Adult Literature in Late
Adolescence: College Freshmen Read, Gail Zdilla 12 Female Reader Reading
YA: Understanding Norman Holland's Identity Themes Thirty Years Later,
Janet Alsup