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

Author:   Victor Malo-Juvera ,  Crag Hill
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367339326


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   05 December 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Victor Malo-Juvera ,  Crag Hill
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.526kg
ISBN:  

9780367339326


ISBN 10:   0367339323
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   05 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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"

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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.

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