Young adult literature and adolescent identity across cultures and classrooms : contexts for the literary lives of teens /
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: identification, actualization, or education: why teach YAL? / Janet Alsup
- Who are the teens reading YAL? African American young adult literature and Black adolescent identity: developing a sense of self and society through narrative / Joy Dangora
- Depictions of Chinese Americans in young adult literature: American born Chinese and beyond / Nai-Hua Kuo
- Composing themselves: the discursive (de)construction of queer identity in six young adult novels / James R. Gilligan
- Teaching through the conflict: examining the value of culturally authentic Arabic young adult literature / Nisreen M. Kamel Anati
- Culture and language: the two tongues of Mexican American young adult literature: companion chapters. Funds of knowledge and Mexican American cultural values in Ma YAL / William J. Broz
- Mestizaje: forging identity through hybridity / René Saldaña, Jr.
- Why should teachers teach YAL? Engaging and enchanting the heart: developing moral identity through young adult fantasy literature / Aliel Cunningham
- Beyond the comics page: pedagogical opportunities and challenges in teaching graphic novels / Lisa Schade Eckert
- Pedagogues and demigods: captivity, pedagogy, and young adult literature in an age of diminished expectations / Jeff Spanke
- Perspective giving and taking in the secondary English class: considering the case of Erin Gruwell / Jeanne Smith Muzzillo
- Why are teens reading YAL? The appeal of young adult literature in late adolescence: college freshmen read YAL / Gail Zdilla
- 1 female reader reading YAL: understanding Norman Holland's identity themes thirty years later / Janet Alsup.