Young adult literature and adolescent identity across cultures and classrooms : contexts for the literary lives of teens / / edited by Janet Alsup.

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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:ix, 225 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: identification, actualization, or education: why teach ya? / Janet Alsup
  • Who are the teens reading ya? 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 6 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 / Rene Saldaa, Jr.
  • Why should teachers teach ya? 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 ya? The appeal of young adult literature in late adolescence: college freshmen read ya / Gail Zdilla
  • 1 female reader reading ya: understanding Norman Holland's identity themes thirty years later / Janet Alsup.