Critical Foundations in Young Adult Literature: Challenging Genres -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFACE: YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE COMES OF AGE: The Blurring of Genre in Popular Entertainment -- THE EDUCATION GAMES: REFORM AS DOUBLESPEAK -- "One Need Not Swallow Such Absurdities as This" -- High-stakes Standardized Tests -- Common Core State Standards -- Expertise in Education -- The Ends-Justify-the-Means Logic -- SEPARATE, UNEQUAL...AND DISTRACTED -- X-Men and The Hunger Games: Allegory as Unmasking -- Separate, Unequal...and Distracted -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INTRODUCTION: READING UNEASE: Just Who, Exactly, Is Young Adult Literature Made For? -- WHAT'S THIS ALL ABOUT? -- A GENRE IN MOTION -- TROUBLING QUESTIONS: WHAT IS YA AND WHAT DOES IT DO? -- ON THE BOOK INDUSTRY -- ARCHETYPES AND TROPES -- A BOOK ABOUT THEORY -- A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS -- A NOTE ON CONTRADICTION AND PASSION -- CHAPTER 1: CAPITALISM, HOLLYWOOD, AND ADULT APPROPRIATION OF YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE: The Harry Potter Effect -- CAPITALISM -- ON CO-OPTING YOUTH CULTURE -- I AM NUMBER FOUR: A CASE STUDY IN YA CAPITALISM -- A QUESTION OF AUTHORSHIP -- I AM POSTMODERN -- LIFE-LONG READING AS LIFE-LONG CONSUMING -- SERIALIZATION -- A HOGWARTS OF ONE'S OWN -- CHAPTER 2: MORE THAN MANGO STREET: Race, Multiculturalism and YA -- STEREOTYPES ON COVERS -- ACKNOWLEDGING PRIVILEGE, RESPONDING TO PRIVILEGE -- THE MULTICULTURAL CANON -- THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART TIME INDIAN AND CRITICAL RACE THEORY -- WHOSE PART-TIME INDIAN IS IT? -- MESSAGES TO READERS ABOUT ACHIEVEMENT -- ACTING WHITE -- LOOKING FOR DIVERSITY -- CHAPTER 3: OUTSIDERS?: Exclusion and Post-Colonial Theory -- THE "BEST" IS ALSO THE "WHITEST"? -- POST-COLONIAL THEORY AND OUTSIDERS -- WHITE PRIVILEGE AND YA -- ALI ENATING READERS IN THE WEALTH OF GOSSIP GIRL -- ON THE ABSENCE OF PARENTS.

WHITE SUPREMACIST, CAPITALIST, PATRIARCHY -- IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT -- THIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL HOUSE -- THE SINGLE STORY OF YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE -- CHAPTER 4: GENDER AND SEXUALITY AND YA: Constructions of Identity and Gender -- MORE THAN FEMINISM -- THIRD WAVE FEMINISM AND BEYOND -- BEAUTY AND THE MALE GAZE -- A NOTE ABOUT MALE IDENTITY -- ASKING ALICE -- DEPICTIONS OF HETERONORMATIVITY -- WHO GETS TO BE GAY IN YA? -- THE THING ABOUT STANDARDS -- CHAPTER 5: PEDAGOGY OF THE DEMONICALLY POSSESSED: Critical Pedagogy and Popular Literature -- WHO IS FREIRE AND WHY WOULD HE CARE ABOUT YA? -- THE DEMONICALLY POSSESSED: CRITICAL PEDAGOGY AND TWILIGHT -- LITERATURE AS A PATHWAY FOR YOUTH TO CRITIQUE AND PRODUCE -- DEAR FRIEND -- FROM DEAR FRIEND TO DEAR ME -- A WIRELESS CRITICAL PEDAGOGY -- CHALLENGING THE GENRE -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 6: GRASSROOTS YA: Don't Forget to Be Awesome -- JOHN GREEN AND THE NERDFIGHTERS SAVE THE WORLD FROM WORLDSUCK -- NERDFIGHTING AND WORLD SUCK -- THE HARRY POTTER ALLIANCE -- YOUTH BEING PARTICIPATORY -- YOUTH PRODUCTION AND NANOWRIMO -- FROM DRACO TO CITY OF BONES -- YA OTAKU -- CONCLUSION: YA AND THE "EMERGING SELF": Looking Ahead at the Genre and Our Classrooms -- YA IN AN ERA OF COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS -- NON-PARENTAL GUIDANCE REQUIRED -- EACH BOOK A REVOLUTION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.