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Critical Foundations in Young Adult Literature : Challenging Genres / by Antero Garcia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garcia, Antero.
- Series:
- Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors and Genre
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education.
- Local Subjects:
- Education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (156 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2013.
- Place of Publication:
- Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Young Adult literature, from The Outsiders to Harry Potter, has helped shape the cultural landscape for adolescents perhaps more than any other form of consumable media in the twentieth and twenty-first century. With the rise of mega blockbuster films based on these books in recent years, the young adult genre is being co-opted by curious adult readers and by Hollywood producers. However, while the genre may be getting more readers than ever before, Young Adult literature remains exclusionary and problematic: few titles feature historically marginalized individuals, the books present heteronormative perspectives, and gender stereotypes continue to persist. Taking a critical approach, Young Adult Literature: Challenging Genres offers educators, youth librarians, and students a set of strategies for unpacking, challenging, and transforming the assumptions of some of the genre's most popular titles. Pushing the genre forward, Antero Garcia builds on his experiences as a former high school teacher to offer strategies for integrating Young Adult literature in a contemporary critical pedagogy through the use of participatory media.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Reading Unease
- Capitalism, Hollywood, and Adult Appropriation of Young Adult Literature
- More than Mango Street
- Outsiders?
- Gender and Sexuality and YA
- Pedagogy of the Demonically Possessed
- Grassroots YA
- YA and the “Emerging Self”
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-139) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789462093973
- 9462093970
- 9789462093980
- 9462093989
- OCLC:
- 863698575
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