Description |
1 online resource (viii, 234 pages) |
Contents |
Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Introduction: Young Adult Literature and the Postsecular Novel (Jacob Stratman); Postsecular Young Adult Literature: or, Harry Potter and the New Religious Landscape (Paul T. Corrigan); Fantasy as Realism: N.D. Wilson and the Influence of Mythology (Jeremy Larson); A Ninja, a Nun and a Knight: Christianity and Narrative Mischief in Brian Meehl's You Don't Know About Me, Suck It Up and Suck It Up and Die (Carrie Myers); The Book Worlds of Nikki Grimes: An Invitation to Dialogic Reading (Susan Leigh Brooks) |
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Young Adult Fiction, Diaspora and the "Muslim" Question: A Study on Faith and Feminism in Randa Abdel-Fattah's Novels (Fatema Johera Ahmed)The Customized Religion: Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, American Teenagers and Pete Hautman's Godless (Jacob Stratman); Learning How to Be Jewish in The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah and Confessions of a Closet Catholic (Patricia F. D'Ascoli); "Stick up for these crazy stupid things": Emily Horner's Queer Quaker Road Trip Novel (Katelyn R. Browne); Performing God: Kiran and Krishna in Rakesh Satyal's Blue Boy (Rizia Begum Laskar) |
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The Way of the Fantasist: Ethical Complexities in the Taoist Mythopoeic Fantasy of Ursula Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea (David S. Hogsette)The Language of Magic and Prayer: Intercession in the Works of Merrie Haskell (Erin Wyble Newcomb); Postsecular Cosplay, Fundamentalism and Martyrdom in Gene Luen Yang's Boxers & Saints (Carissa Turner Smith); Sight, Blindness and Identity in Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese and Boxers & Saints (Shih-Wen Sue Chen); About the Contributors; Index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 29, 2018) |
Subject |
Young adult literature -- History and criticism
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Young adult literature -- Study and teaching
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Young adults -- Religious life
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Young adult literature
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Young adult literature -- Study and teaching
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Young adults -- Religious life
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Stratman, Jacob, editor.
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ISBN |
9781476630991 |
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1476630992 |
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