Contemporary adolescent literature and culture : the emergent adult / edited by Mary Hilton and Maria Nikolajeva.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hilton, Mary, 1946-

Nikolajeva, Maria.

Series:

Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present.

Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature--History and criticism.

Children's literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 170 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Offering a range of critical perspectives, this volume explores the moral, ideological & literary landscapes in fiction & other cultural productions aimed at young adults. The contributors illuminate how the cultural constructions 'adolescent' & 'young adult fiction' share some of society's painful anxieties & contradictions. Offering a wide range of critical perspectives, this volume explores the moral, ideological and literary landscapes in fiction and other cultural productions aimed at young adults. Topics examined are adolescence and the natural world, nationhood and identity, the mapping of sexual awakening onto postcolonial awareness, hybridity and trans-racial romance, transgressive sexuality, the sexually abused adolescent body, music as a code for identity formation, representations of adolescent emotion, and what neuroscience research tells us about young adult readers, writers, and young artists.

Contents:

1. Adolescence and the natural world in young adult fiction / David Whitley

2. Nationhood, struggle, and identity / Elia Michelle Lafuente

3. Transgression and transition / Georgie Horrell

4. Romance, dystopia, and the hybrid child / Clementine Beauvais

5. Cross-dressing and performativity / Nicole Brugger-Dethmers

6. Monstrous bodies : writing the incestuously abused adolescent body / Lydia Kokkola

7. "The beat of your heart" : music in young adult literature and culture / Karen Coats

8. Emotional connection : representation of emotions in young adult literature / Bettina Kummerling-Meibauer

9. Brain and behaviour : the coherence of teenage responses to young adult literature / Shirley Brice Heath and Jennifer Lynn Wolf.

Notes:

First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-315-57378-4

1-317-16098-3

1-4094-3989-5

9781315573786

OCLC:

806291596