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Critical Foundations in Young Adult Literature

Challenging Genres

Authors:

  1. Antero Garcia

    1. Fort Collins, USA

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  • Based on classroom experiences with both college and high school students, Antero Garcia offers a theory-based approach to challenging and transforming youth engagement with young adult literature.

Part of the book series: Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors and Genre (LITE)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Reading Unease

    • Antero Garcia
    Pages 1-12

  4. More Than Mango Street

    • Antero Garcia
    Pages 37-57

  5. Outsiders?

    • Antero Garcia
    Pages 59-75

  6. Gender and Sexuality and YA

    • Antero Garcia
    Pages 77-93

  7. Pedagogy of the Demonically Possessed

    • Antero Garcia
    Pages 95-107

  8. Grassroots YA

    • Antero Garcia
    Pages 109-128

  9. YA and the “Emerging Self”

    • Antero Garcia
    Pages 129-134

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 135-142
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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, 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.
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    Antero Garcia

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