Beyond the blockbusters : themes and trends in contemporary young adult fiction / edited by Rebekah Fitzsimmons and Casey Alane Wilson.
"While critical and popular attention afforded to twenty-first-century young adult literature has exponentially increased in recent years, classroom materials and scholarship have remained static in focus and slight in scope. Twilight, The Hunger Games, The Fault in Our Stars, and The Hate U Give ov...
| Uniform Title: | Children's Literature Association series.
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| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2020.
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| Series: | Children's Literature Association series.
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| Physical Description: | xxiv, 229 pages ; 24 cm. |
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Contents:
- Introduction. Boom! goes the hypercanon: on the importance of the overlooked and understudied in young adult literature / Rebekah Fitzsimmons and Casey Alane Wilson
- Section1: Defining boundaries. Exploring the genre conventions of the YA dystopian trilogy as twenty-first century utopian dreaming / Rebekah Fitzsimmons ; Oversharing on and off the internet: crossing from digital to print (and back) in young adult works authored by YouTube stars / Rachel L. Rickard Rebellino ; Paranormal maturation: uncanny teenagers and canny killers / Rachel Dean-Ruzicka ; Fathoms below: an in-depth examination of the mermaid in young adult literature, 2010-2015 / Amber Gray ; Who are these books really for? Police-violence YA, black youth activism, and the implied white audience / Kaylee Jangula Mootz
- Section 2: Expanding boundaries. New directions for old roads: rewriting the young adult road trip story / Jason Vanfosson ; New heroines in old skins: fairy tale revisions in young adult dystopian literature / Jill Coste ; Manufacturing manhood: young adult fiction and masculinity(ies) in the twenty-first century / Tom Jesse and Heidi Jones ; Mythopoeic YA: worlds of possibility / Leah Phillips
- Section 3: Revealing boundaries. "Tell me who I am": an investigation of cultural authenticiy in YA disability peritexts / Megan Brown ; Reimagining Forever...: the marriage plot in recent young adult literatuer / Sara K. Day ; "No accident, no mistake": acquiantance rape in recent YA novels / Roxanne Harde ; Eliminating extermination, fostering existence: diverse dystopian fiction and female adolescent identity / Sarah E. Whitney.