Contemporary Adolescent Literature and Culture
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Adolescent Fiction
adolescent neuroscience research
adult
Breaking Dawn
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child
Children's Literature Association Quarterly
Children’s Literature Association Quarterly
Edwidge Danticat
emergent
Emergent Adult
emotional development youth
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Fairy Tales
fiction
Freaky Friday
Green Gables
Green World Lover
Howl's Moving Castle
Howl’s Moving Castle
hybrid
Hybrid Child
hybridity in literature
Main Character
Mommie Dearest
Natural World
novel
Post Cards
postcolonial adolescence
Pre-motor Cortex
Radical Children's Literature
Radical Children’s Literature
reader
readers
sexual abuse representation in fiction
Super Hero
teenage
Teenage Readers
transgressive sexuality studies
Tv Music
young
Young Adult Fiction
young adult identity formation
Young Adult Literature
Young Adult Novels
Young Adult Readers
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781138250451
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Oct 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Offering a wide range of critical perspectives, this volume explores the moral, ideological and literary landscapes in fiction and other cultural productions aimed at young adults. Topics examined are adolescence and the natural world, nationhood and identity, the mapping of sexual awakening onto postcolonial awareness, hybridity and trans-racial romance, transgressive sexuality, the sexually abused adolescent body, music as a code for identity formation, representations of adolescent emotion, and what neuroscience research tells us about young adult readers, writers, and young artists. Throughout, the volume explores the ways writers configure their adolescent protagonists as awkward, alienated, rebellious and unhappy, so that the figure of the young adult becomes a symbol of wider political and societal concerns. Examining in depth significant contemporary novels, including those by Julia Alvarez, Stephenie Meyer, Tamora Pierce, Malorie Blackman and Meg Rosoff, among others, Contemporary Adolescent Literature and Culture illuminates the ways in which the cultural constructions 'adolescent' and 'young adult fiction' share some of society's most painful anxieties and contradictions.
Mary Hilton is a Senior Research Fellow at Homerton College and Maria Nikolajeva is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK.
