Teaching young adult literature / edited by Mike Cadden, Karen Coats, Roberta Seelinger Trites.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cadden, Michael, editor.

Coats, Karen, 1963- editor.

Trites, Roberta Seelinger, 1962- editor.

Series:

Options for teaching ; 50.

Options for teaching, 10792562 ; 50

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young adult literature--Study and teaching (Higher).

Young adult literature.

Young adult literature--History and criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Young adult works.

Physical Description:

viii, 350 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2020.

Summary:

"Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching classic and contemporary young adult (YA) literature and texts about growing to adulthood. Addresses issues of selecting classroom texts, building cultural awareness, responding to censorship, and reading both emotionally and critically. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses in literature, education, and library science"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Theories, Themes, and Issues

The Effect of Affect: Young Adult Literature, Literary Theory, and Emotionalism / Michelle Ann Abate

Contemplating Childhood and Adolescence in Elie Wiesel's Night / Lee A. Talley

Youth, Transnationalism, Identity: Young Adult Literature and World Literature / Melek Ortabasi

Say Their Names: Complicating the Single-Story Narrative of City Kids / Carey Applegate

Embracing Discomfort and Difference in the Teaching of Young Adult Literature: Notes toward an Unfinished Project / Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

Teaching Texas Borderlands Young Adult Literature / Amy Cummins

Language, Identity, and Social Reality in Twenty-First-Century American Indian Young Adult Fiction / Michael Zimmerman Jr.

A Girls' Studies Approach to Young Adult Literature / Katie Kapurch

"Re-Presenting" Gender in Multicultural Young Adult Literature / Padma Baliga

Subverting Normative Paradigms: Teaching Representations of Gender and Queerness in Young Adult Literature / Angel Daniel Matos

Teaching Transgressive Texts / Melanie Goss

But I Can't Use This in a Classroom! Teaching Risky/Risque Young Adult Literature / Laura Apol

Addressing School Censorship in the Young Adult Literature Course / Wendy J. Glenn

The Case for Teaching Young Adult Literature Everywhere / S. Patrice Jones

Surveying Fiction: Teaching Young Adult Literature across the Curriculum / Billie Jarvis-Freeman

Literary Education That Crosses Borders: Adolescent Fiction in the Upper Grades of Secondary Schools / Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer

The Pleasures and Impasses of Teaching Young Adult Literature to Polish Graduates in English Studies / Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak

pt. II Genres and Forms

Teaching Young Adult Science Fiction / Farah Mendlesohn

Representations of Youth, Schooling, and Education in Dystopian Young Adult Novels / Elizabeth Marshall

Teaching Genre: Fairy Tales and Their Retellings in Young Adult Literature / Mary Bricker

The Story behind the Story: A Cross-Textual, New Historicist Approach to Historical Fiction / Mary Adler

Taking a Second Look at First-Person Narration in Young Adult Realistic Fiction / Cathryn M. Mercier

Peritext and Pedagogy: Supporting Critical Thinking through Young Adult Nonfiction / Melissa Gross

Teaching the Young Adult Verse Narrative / Karen Coats

Integrating Comics into an Undergraduate Young Adult Literature Course / Gwen Athene Tarbox

Teaching Adolescent Film: A Cultural-Historical Activity-Theory Approach / Meghann Meeusen

pt. III Assignments

Theorized Storytelling: A Tool for Practicing Reader-Response Criticism / Melissa Sara Smith

Team-Based Learning and Young Adult Literature / Roxanne Harde

On Curating Online Anthologies: Not the Traditional Term Paper / Eric Esten

The Young Adult Critical Edition Project / Virginia Zimmerman

Sound Tracks of Our Lives: Mix Tapes and Playlists in the Young Adult Literature Classroom / Jan C. Susina

The Politics of Realism: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Adolescent "Storm and Stress" / Katherine Bell

Teaching Young Adult Girls' Books: Why Bother? / Lauren Byler

pt. IV Resources

Resources / Mike Cadden.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Teaching young adult literature

ISBN:

9781603294584

1603294589

9781603294553

1603294554

OCLC:

1131884531