Contemporary Adolescent Literature and Culture : The Emergent Adult.
Title:
Contemporary Adolescent Literature and Culture : The Emergent Adult.
Author:
Nikolajeva, Maria, Professor.
ISBN:
9781409439899
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (181 pages)
Series:
Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Time of Turmoil -- 1 Adolescence and the Natural World in Young Adult Fiction -- 2 Nationhood, Struggle, and Identity -- 3 Transgression and Transition -- 4 Romance, Dystopia, and the Hybrid Child -- 5 Cross-Dressing and Performativity -- 6 Monstrous Bodies: Writing the Incestuously Abused Adolescent Body -- 7 "The Beat of your Heart": Music in Young Adult Literature and Culture -- 8 Emotional Connection: Representation of Emotions in Young Adult Literature -- 9 Brain and Behaviour: The Coherence of Teenage Responses to Young Adult Literature -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Offering a wide range of critical perspectives, this volume explores the moral, ideological and literary landscapes in fiction and other cultural productions aimed at young adults. Examining in depth significant contemporary novels, including those by Julia Alvarez, Stephenie Meyer, Tamora Pierce, Malorie Blackman and Meg Rosoff, among others, Contemporary Adolescent Literature and Culture illuminates the ways in which the cultural constructions 'adolescent' and 'young adult fiction' share some of society's most painful anxieties and contradictions.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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