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Author Malo-Juvera, Victor

Title Critical Explorations of Young Adult Literature : Identifying and Critiquing the Canon
Published Milton : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (289 pages)
Series Routledge Research in Education Ser
Routledge Research in Education Ser
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Author Bio; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 The Young Adult Canon: A Literary Solar System; SECTION I The Center of the Canon; 2 The Giver in Our Midst: Grounding Dystopia as Total Institutions; 3 "It's Easier Not to Say Anything": Speak Through the Lens of Strategic Formalism; 4 "Do You See a [Hu]man Sitting Here?" Signifying in Monster; 5 "Lost, Squared": Reservation Realism and the Borderless Imaginary; SECTION II Seminal Works; 6 From Maven to Mentor: The Archetypal Coaches of The Contender
7 "Peace at Any Price": A Marxist Reading of The Chocolate War8 Complex Bodies, Complex Decisions: Female Sexuality in Judy Blume's Forever . . .; 9 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Disrupting the "All-White World of Children's Books"; 10 More Than Esperanza: Revisiting Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street; 11 Dominating Gender: Female-Controlled, Decolonizing Power and The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle; SECTION III Contemporaries; 12 "The Earth Is Speaking to Us": An Ecocritical Approach to Stargirl
13 Parties, Pranks, and Privilege: Reading Looking for Alaska Through the Lens of Critical Whiteness14 Attending to Cultural Models in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis; 15 "So What Am I Supposed to Do Now?" Border Crossing in American Born Chinese; 16 The Literacy Thief: A New Literacy Studies Analysis of The Book Thief; Index
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Author Hill, Crag
ISBN 9781000769975
1000769976
9781000769999
1000769992