Cancer and young adult literature /

"This collection critically presents arguments studying cancer as it is portrayed in Young Adult literature. The essays included offer insights into cancer and families, cancer and relationships, cancer and story-telling, and more"--

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Zimmerly, Stephen M. (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham : Lexington Books, [2025]
Subjects:	Young adult literature, American > History and criticism. Cancer in literature. Cancer patients in literature. Cancer in motion pictures. Cancer patients in motion pictures. Young adult literature > History and criticism. Littérature pour jeunes adultes américaine > Histoire et critique. Cancer dans la littérature. Littérature pour jeunes adultes > Histoire et critique. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires.

Table of Contents:

Monster Theory and Parental Loss in A Monster Calls / Sarah Minslow
The Wilting Branch: The Effects of Cancer on the Family Unit / Abigail Bailey
A Matter of Perspectives: How Pediatric Patients and Parents Cope with Cancer and Death in Ways to Live Forever and Before I Die / Alessia Silvestrin
Last Things: Sick Protagonists' Bucket Lists / Jennifer Marchant
Grounded in Fantasy or Reality: Comparing real-life accounts of adolescent cancer with fictional themes of experience in popular YA texts / Katie Doering
"Oddest and Most Hopeless:" Leukemia, the YA Cancer Narrative, and Writing for Young Adults / Stephen M. Zimmerly
Teenage Hospital Romance among the Cancerously Ill in Cellular and Too Young to Die / Arka De Barman
EcoGothic and Bodily Decay in the Film Adaptations of A Walk to Remember (2002), Now is Good (2012), The Fault in Our Stars (2014), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), and Clouds (2020) / Jesse Bair.