Critical foundations in young adult literature : challenging genres
Antero Garcia (Author)
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, Critical Foundations in 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.--Back cover
Print Book, English, 2013
Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2013
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xix, 142 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9789462093973, 9789462093966, 9789462093980, 9462093970, 9462093962, 9462093989
861478291
Preface. Young Adult Literature Comes of Age: The Blurring of Genre in Popular Entertainment
Introduction. Reading Unease: Just Who, Exactly, Is Young Adult Literature Made For?
Capitalism, Hollywood, and Adult Appropriation of Young Adult Literature: The Harry Potter Effect
More than Mango Street: Race, Multiculturalism and YA
Outsiders?: Exclusion and Post-Colonial Theory
Gender and Sexuality and YA: Constructions of Identity and Gender
Pedagogy of the Demonically Possessed: Critical Pedagogy and Popular Literature
Grassroots YA: Don't Forget to Be Awesome
Conclusion. YA and the "Emerging Self": Looking Ahead at the Genre and Our Classrooms