glenn, wendy j.
In the world of sports today, young people have access to models of women athletes who seem to have it all, women whose actions push on gendered assumptions of love and the associated roles of women as sacrificial and subservient. And yet, young people, particularly young girls, wanting to navigate their worlds in ways that challenge conventional l...
De Persia Colón, Adriana
This doctoral thesis, entitled A Story of the Young Adult Story of Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Culture, and Media, is an anticolonial and decolonial analysis of childhoods and youth under colonial occupation in Puerto Rico at the turn of the twenty-first century. As a mixed genre project, this research bridges the personal with larger tr...
Cuestas, Paula Pates, Giuliana
In the context of a feminist fourth wave, characterized by youth participation and the inclusion of its generational agenda, books are published for young people that broaden the representations in sex-generic terms. This article is intended to describe these feminist books, how they are presented by the publishing world and their transmedial circu...
Olsson, Jakob
This thesis aims to explore how 21st-century children’s and young adult literature published in Sweden represents and frames digital technology, as well as how this literature relates to contemporary digital discourse. Theoretically, the thesis brings together ideas and concepts from various fields of study, such as media discourse analysis, interm...
Kelley, Averill Duane Watts, Diantha Miller, Henry Colantonio-Yurko, Kathleen Howard, Jashaun Johnson, Nicole
In this practitioner article, we detail how American English language arts and social studies teachers can select and teach young adult literature using LaGarrett King’s Black historical consciousness framework. We provide supplemental, related research along with teaching suggestions and titles for each of the Black historical consciousness princi...
Beestone, Kelly
This thesis contends that YA fantasy fiction continuously evolves to adapt to its ageing readership, calls for more diversity, and a circuitous relationship between publishers, authors, and content creators which enables fans to participate in the formation of a YA canon distinct from traditional fantasy literature. The first chapter examines the c...
Brezovnik, Hana
This thesis discusses the role of literature within the English language classroom and explores the reasons for its incorporation, the methods of implementation, and the selection criteria for texts. The central objective of the thesis is to apply the principles of literature teaching to a specific literary genre: dystopian literature designed for ...
Plieth, Carla
This dissertation provides a critical content analysis of contemporary, realist adolescent novels depicting boys experiencing particularly rape taken from a corpus of 64 fictional, Anglophone adolescent narratives depicting the sexual abuse (including attempted abuse and rape) of boys published between 1984 and 2022. It is situated at the intersect...
Duckels, Gabriel
This research examines melodramatic approaches to AIDS in Young Adult literature and popular culture in the United States from the mid-1980s to the present day: tear-jerking, over-the-top depictions of sexuality, death, and oppression. The YA novel has traditionally been derided as a literary form because of its melodramatic scope, but melodrama is...
Waller, Kaitlyn
Both young adult literature and novels of migration frequently deal with the construction of identity, from coming-of-age stories to narratives of intercultural exploration and hybridization. Young adult narratives of migration, then, represent a fascinating intersection of two literary traditions for the exploration of questions of identity. Howev...
