Critical explorations of young adult literature : identifying and critiquing the canon /: identifying and critiquing the canon. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Victor Malo-Juvera and Crag Hill.
• Editors: Malo-Juvera, Victor; Hill, Crag
• Contents: 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;
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.89283; Young adult literature -- History and criticism; EDUCATION / General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000769975; 1000769976; 9780429322914; 0429322917; 9781000769982; 1000769984; 9781000769999; 1000769992
• Related ISBNs: 0367339323; 9780367339326
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 21, 2020).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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