Overview

How are teenagers' religious experiences shown in today's young adult literature? How do authors use religious texts and beliefs to add depth to characters, settings and plots? How does YA fiction place itself in the larger conversation regarding religion? Modern YA fiction does not shy away from the dilemmas and anxieties teenagers face today. While many stories end with the protagonist in a state of flux if not despair, some authors choose redemption or reconciliation. This collection of new essays explores these issues and more, with a focus on stories in which characters respond to a new (often shifting) religious landscape, in both realistic and fantastic worlds.

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Author:   Jacob Stratman
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9781476668079

ISBN 10:   1476668078
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   12 September 2018
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Young Adult Literature and the Postsecular Novel (Jacob Stratman) Postsecular Young Adult Literature: or, Harry Potter and the New Religious Landscape (Paul T. Corrigan) Fantasy as Realism: N.D. Wilson and the Influence Mythology (Jeremy Larson) A Ninja, a Nun and a Knight: Christianity and Narrative Mischief in Brian Meehl’s You Don’t Know About Me, Suck It Up and Suck It Up and Die (Carrie Myers) The Book Worlds of Nikki Grimes: An Invitation to Dialogic Reading (Susan Leigh Brooks) Young Adult Fiction, Diaspora and the “Muslim” Question: A Study on Faith and Feminism in Randa ­Abdel-Fattah’s Novels (Fatema Johera Ahmed) The Customized Religion: Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, American Teenagers and Pete Hautman’s Godless (Jacob Stratman) Learning How to Be Jewish in The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah and Confessions of a Closet Catholic (Patricia F. D’Ascoli) “Stick up for these crazy stupid things”: Emily Horner’s Queer Quaker Road Trip Novel (Katelyn R. Browne) Performing God: Kiran and Krishna in Rakesh Satyal’s Blue Boy (Rizia Begum Laskar) The Way of the Fantasist: Ethical Complexities in the Taoist Mythopoeic Fantasy of Ursula Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea (David S. Hogsette) The Language of Magic and Prayer: Intercession in the Works of Merrie Haskell (Erin Wyble Newcomb) Postsecular Cosplay, Fundamentalism and Martyrdom in Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers & Saints (Carissa Turner Smith) Sight, Blindness and Identity in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese and Boxers & Saints (­Shih-Wen Sue Chen) About the Contributors Index

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Valuable --Children's Literature Association Quarterly.

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Jacob Stratman is an associate professor of English and chair of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division at John Brown University. He has published articles in SIGNAL, English Journal, Christianity and Literature and Literature and Belief and lives in Siloam Springs, Arkansas.

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