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Title Beyond the blockbusters : themes and trends in contemporary young adult fiction / edited by Rebekah Fitzsimmons and Casey Alane Wilson
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 224 pages)
Series Children's Literature Association series
Children's Literature Association series.
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 authenticity in YA disability peritexts / Megan Brown ; Reimagining Forever ... : the marriage plot in recent young adult literature / Sara K. Day ; "No accident, no mistake" : acquaintance rape in recent YA novels / Roxanne Harde ; Eliminating extermination, fostering existence : diverse dystopian fiction and female adolescent identity / S. R. Toliver ; Sharpening the pointe : the intersectional feminism of contemporary Young Adult ballet novels / Sarah E. Whitney
Summary 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 overwhelm conversations among scholars and critics - but these are far from the only texts in need of analysis. This book offers a necessary remedy to this limiting perspective, bringing together essays about the many subgenres, themes, and character types that have been overlooked. The collection tackles a diverse range of topics - modern updates to the marriage plot; fairy tale retellings in dystopian settings; stories of extrajudicial police killings and racial justice. The approaches are united, though, by a commitment to exploring the large-scale generic and theoretical structures at work in each set of texts. As a collection, this is an entryway into a field that continues to grow and change even as its works captivate massive audiences. -- Provided by publisher
"A necessary expansion of the lens and landscape of young adult literature"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 16, 2020)
Subject Young adult literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
Young adult literature, American -- 21st century -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Children's & Young Adult Literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Children's Literature.
Young adult literature
Young adult literature, American
Genre/Form essays.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Essays
Literary criticism
Essays.
Literary criticism.
Essais.
Critiques littéraires.
Form Electronic book
Author Fitzsimmons, Rebekah, editor.
Wilson, Casey Alane, editor.
LC no. 2019046237
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