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Beyond the blockbusters : themes and trends in contemporary young adult fiction /
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 ove...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2020.
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| Colección: | Children's Literature Association series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. -- "A necessary expansion of the lens and landscape of young adult literature"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 224 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 149682718X 9781496827159 1496827155 9781496827166 1496827163 9781496827173 1496827171 9781496827180 |