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Young adult literature and adolescent identity across cultures and classrooms : contexts for the literary lives of teens /
edited by Janet Alsup.
- New York : Routledge, 2010.
- ix, 225 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: identification, actualization, or education: why teach YAL? / Janet Alsup -- Who are the teens reading YAL? African American young adult literature and Black adolescent identity: developing a sense of self and society through narrative / Joy Dangora -- Depictions of Chinese Americans in young adult literature: American born Chinese and beyond / Nai-Hua Kuo -- Composing themselves: the discursive (de)construction of queer identity in six young adult novels / James R. Gilligan -- Teaching through the conflict: examining the value of culturally authentic Arabic young adult literature / Nisreen M. Kamel Anati -- Culture and language: the two tongues of Mexican American young adult literature: companion chapters. Funds of knowledge and Mexican American cultural values in Ma YAL / William J. Broz -- Mestizaje: forging identity through hybridity / Ren�e Salda�na, Jr. -- Why should teachers teach YAL? Engaging and enchanting the heart: developing moral identity through young adult fantasy literature / Aliel Cunningham -- Beyond the comics page: pedagogical opportunities and challenges in teaching graphic novels / Lisa Schade Eckert -- Pedagogues and demigods: captivity, pedagogy, and young adult literature in an age of diminished expectations / Jeff Spanke -- Perspective giving and taking in the secondary English class: considering the case of Erin Gruwell / Jeanne Smith Muzzillo -- Why are teens reading YAL? The appeal of young adult literature in late adolescence: college freshmen read YAL / Gail Zdilla -- 1 female reader reading YAL: understanding Norman Holland's identity themes thirty years later / Janet Alsup.
9780415876988 0415876982 9780415876995 (pbk.) 0415876990 (pbk.) 9780203853139 (ebk.) 020385313X (ebk.)
Young adult literature--Study and teaching.
Young adult literature--Stories, plots, etc.
Ethnicity in literature--Study and teaching.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
PN1008.8 / Y687
809.892830712 / Y687
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: identification, actualization, or education: why teach YAL? / Janet Alsup -- Who are the teens reading YAL? African American young adult literature and Black adolescent identity: developing a sense of self and society through narrative / Joy Dangora -- Depictions of Chinese Americans in young adult literature: American born Chinese and beyond / Nai-Hua Kuo -- Composing themselves: the discursive (de)construction of queer identity in six young adult novels / James R. Gilligan -- Teaching through the conflict: examining the value of culturally authentic Arabic young adult literature / Nisreen M. Kamel Anati -- Culture and language: the two tongues of Mexican American young adult literature: companion chapters. Funds of knowledge and Mexican American cultural values in Ma YAL / William J. Broz -- Mestizaje: forging identity through hybridity / Ren�e Salda�na, Jr. -- Why should teachers teach YAL? Engaging and enchanting the heart: developing moral identity through young adult fantasy literature / Aliel Cunningham -- Beyond the comics page: pedagogical opportunities and challenges in teaching graphic novels / Lisa Schade Eckert -- Pedagogues and demigods: captivity, pedagogy, and young adult literature in an age of diminished expectations / Jeff Spanke -- Perspective giving and taking in the secondary English class: considering the case of Erin Gruwell / Jeanne Smith Muzzillo -- Why are teens reading YAL? The appeal of young adult literature in late adolescence: college freshmen read YAL / Gail Zdilla -- 1 female reader reading YAL: understanding Norman Holland's identity themes thirty years later / Janet Alsup.
9780415876988 0415876982 9780415876995 (pbk.) 0415876990 (pbk.) 9780203853139 (ebk.) 020385313X (ebk.)
Young adult literature--Study and teaching.
Young adult literature--Stories, plots, etc.
Ethnicity in literature--Study and teaching.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
PN1008.8 / Y687
809.892830712 / Y687