From Hinton to Hamlet: Building Bridges Between Young Adult Literature and the Classics, and: Young Adult Fiction by African American Writers, 1968-1993: A Critical and Annotated Guide, and: Writers of Multicultural Fiction for Young Adults: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook (review)

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-122
Author(s):  
David L. Russell
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
African American ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Young Adult Fiction ◽  
Annotated Guide

Morbidity in Young Adult Literature: A Case Study in the Outsiders

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Arvind Dahal
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Young Adult Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
Universal Nature

The inevitable and universal nature of death has made it a popular topic in Young Adult literature. While death recurs in these stories however, death in young adult novels is much darker and more complex. In this light, this paper discusses why is the issue of death in Young Adult fiction is still a safe place to discuss from the novel “The Outsiders”. It argues that the young adults find themselves in a state of morbid fear and realize that what for them is the site of joy and peace is a place of horror to the adults.

Fröschen und Gurken

2018 ◽  
pp. 59-70
Author(s):  
Julia Boog-Kaminski
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Sexual Liberation ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Children And Young Adults

Artikelbeginn:[English title and abstract below] Kaum eine Zeit steht so sehr für die sexuelle Befreiung und Sprengung familialer Strukturen wie die 1968er (vgl. Herzog 2005). Kaum ein Märchen steht in der psychoanalytischen Deutung so sehr für den sexuellen Reifungsprozess und das Unabhängigwerden eines Kindes wie Der Froschkönig. Der vorliegende Artikel greift diese Verbindung auf, da gerade während der 68er-Bewegung verschiedene Wasser- und Amphibienfiguren in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur (KJL) vorkommen, die stark an die Motive des Märchens erinnern. Frogs and CucumbersTransformed Men in Children’s and Young Adult Literature Since 1968 In psychoanalysis, the fairy tale The Frog Prince has attracted much interest as a narrative of sexual liberation. Placing this motif at the heart of Nöstlinger’s and Pressler’s ›antiauthoritarian classics,‹ this article puts forward a new reading of literature for children and young adults. Through the ambiguity of the frog figure – oscillating between nature and culture, consciousness and unconsciousness – these books chronicle, in their own manner, the social transformation associated with 1968. They portray the emancipation movement as a hurtful and paradoxical process instead of one that reproduces the myth of linear progress.

Young Adult Literature: 1982 Books for Young Adults Poll

1983 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
G. Robert Carlsen ◽  
David P. Lass ◽  
Elizabeth A. Belden
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature

Young Adult Literature: 1985 Books for Young Adults Poll

1985 ◽  
Vol 74 (8) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
John W. Conner ◽  
Kathleen M. Tessmer ◽  
Ann Conner Johnson ◽  
Alyce J. Toloui ◽  
Ann M. Drew ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature

scholarly journals THE VIOLATION OF A TABOO: MODERN YOUNG ADULT IN THE SCHOOL LITERATURE PROGRAM

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-58
Author(s):  
Elena A. Pogorelaya
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Foreign Literature ◽  
Modern School ◽  
Teenagers And Young Adults ◽  
Adult World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Popular Texts

The article offers a variant of updating the modern school literature program by including modern texts aimed at “young adult literature”. In contrast to the foreign practice of publishing and discussing literature for teenagers and “young adults”, in which new children’s literature has long been working with the established taboos of the adult world (themes of death, sex, bullying in the collective, domestic violence, etc.), in Russia the value of such literature is a debatable issue, although a number of popular texts (P. Sanaev, N. Abgaryan, D. Sabitova et al.), obviously, correspond to this trend. Based on an experiment with grade 8 students, who were offered modern works of three thematic blocks (texts dedicated to unknown and tragic pages of the history of the XX century, family themes and topical issues of relations between peers), the potential of modern domestic and foreign literature young adult to encourage interested reading and dialogue with the student is shown. The article presents comments on excerpts from school essays, in which they tell about the texts they read and offer to include in the school course works that are understandable and close to the modern teenager.

Child

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebekah Sheldon
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Young Adult Fiction ◽  
Self Similar ◽  
To Come

In the conclusion of The Child to Come, the book asks, ‘What happens when the life figured by the child--innocent, self-similar human life at home on a homely Earth--no longer has the strength to hold back the vitality that animates it?’ This chapter looks at two kinds of texts that consider this question: Anthropocene cinema and Young Adult Fiction. By focusing on the role of human action, the Anthropocene obscures a far more threatening reality: the collapse of the regulative. In relation, both children’s literature and young adult literature grow out of and as disciplinary apparatuses trained on that fraught transit between the presumptive difference of those still in their minority and the socially necessary sameness that is inscribed into fully attained adulthood.

‘Live. And remember’: History, memory and storytelling in young adult holocaust fiction

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-174
Author(s):  
Vandana Saxena
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
Young Adult Fiction ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Holocaust Literature ◽  
Holocaust Education ◽  
Pedagogical Tool ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
Human Rights Abuse

Young adult fiction has emerged as a crucial pedagogical tool for Holocaust education. According to scholars and writers, it promotes empathy and also encourages the readers to become a part of the process of remembering. However, this field of storytelling also grapples with the dilemma of traumatic subject matter and its suitability for young readers. The humanist conventions of young adult fiction are often in conflict with the bleak and horrifying core of Holocaust literature. Young adult novelists have tried to deal with these problematic aspects by using multiple narrative strategies to integrate the memories of genocide and human rights abuse with the project of growth and socialisation that lies at the heart of young adult literature. This paper examines the narrative strategies that make young adult fiction an apt bearer and preserver of the traumatic past. Specifically, these strategies involve fantastical modes of storytelling, liminality and witness testimonies told to the second- and third-generation listeners. These strategies modify the humanist resolution of young adult narratives by integrating growth with collective responsibility.

Young Adult Literature: 1981 Books for Young Adults Poll

1982 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
G. Robert Carlsen ◽  
Elizabeth A. Belden ◽  
Anne Sherrill ◽  
Mary Hoxeng
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature
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