scholarly journals Change the Narrative

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 24-38
Author(s):  
Tynan Drake
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Real World ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Empathic Understanding ◽  
Young Adult Novel ◽  
Fiction Writers ◽  
Personal Level

In post-apocalyptic fiction, the concept of empathy often is depicted as a weakness that the characters cannot afford if they hope to survive. This depiction leads to harmful perceptions on the value of empathy and its ability to avert apocalyptic catastrophes. By examining David Clement-Davies young adult novel The Sight through theories of narrative empathy and through James Berger’s theories of post-apocalyptic representation, this essay argues that by representing empathic understanding, fiction writers have the power to influence positive changes in real world situations. By representing the need to teach empathy for all people, regardless of their differences, and the harm a lack of empathy can cause on both a personal level and on a large societal scale, this novel encourages future generations to seek peaceful and empathic solutions instead of repeating the cataclysmic mistakes of their forebearers.

scholarly journals Immune Reconstitution and Infections in the Real-World Use of Tisagenlecleucel in Pediatric and Young Adult ALL

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. S335-S336
Author(s):  
Amy Moskop ◽  
Julie-An Talano ◽  
Michael R. Verneris ◽  
Christina Baggott ◽  
Snehit Prabhu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Real World ◽  
Immune Reconstitution ◽  
The Real

Poststructuralism and Its Discontents

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Ardoin
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Real World ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
English Studies ◽  
Central Values ◽  
Potential Value ◽  
Queer People ◽  
Fiction Writers

Deconstruction and poststructuralism have profoundly shaped popular and academic thought, while also drawing both popular and academic resistance, and doing so (strangely) consistently over decades. In particular, deconstruction and poststructuralism (and their synecdoche—the capital-T “Theory”) are viewed as sources of existential peril to English studies, where their impact has been indelibly tied to a canon expansion that takes seriously—and particularly—the contributions of women, people of color, queer people, and others. Detractors often reduce poststructuralism to its -ism—making of it a stagnant force of destabilizing chaos or a hopelessly unproductive and apolitical form of theoretical play. Dogmatic enthusiasts often become similarly reductive. Thinkers like Barbara Johnson and fiction writers like Percival Everett exemplify and advocate for a brand of deconstructive self-critique in which we: avoid allowing our enthusiasm or opinions to harden into any -ism (even when the enthusiasm is for, say, undecidability); embrace (in fact, seek) opportunities of confrontation with ignorance in our own thought; and recognize the potential value of upheaval in our real-world practices. Such self-critique is far from an existential peril to central values of English studies; it is, in fact, something not unlike the “critical thinking” valued and marketed by the Humanities.

scholarly journals Decolonizing the Anthropocene: ‘Slow Violence’ and Indigenous Resistance in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves

Il Tolomeo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Xausa
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Species Level ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Indigenous Resistance ◽  
Eruptive Event ◽  
Young Adult Novel ◽  
Indigenous Theory ◽  
Slow Violence

Through a reading of Cherie Dimaline’s 2017 young adult novel The Marrow Thieves, a survival story set in a futuristic Canada destroyed by global warming, this article explores the conceptualization and reimagination of the Anthropocene in contemporary postcolonial and Indigenous theory and fiction. Firstly, I will argue that literary representations of climate change can be complicit in producing hegemonic strands of Anthropocene discourse that consider human destructiveness and vulnerability at undifferentiated species level. Secondly, I will suggest that the novel’s apocalypse reveals the processes of colonial violence and dispossession that have culminated in the eruptive event of environmental catastrophe, rather than portraying a story of universal and disembodied human threat that conceals oppression against Indigenous people.

Chicana Teens, Zines, and Poetry Scenes: Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
Amanda Ellis
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Political Art ◽  
Senior Year ◽  
Young Adult Novel ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Fitting In

This chapter reads closely Isabel Quintero’s 2014 young adult novel Gabi, A Girl in Pieces. Quintero’s novel, which takes the form of a year’s worth of diary entries, and includes an illustrated copy of the titular character’s zine on female body diversity, narrates the story of a young Chicana outsider’s senior year of high school. In lieu of “fitting in” Gabi the teenage poet pens her way out of loss, homophobia, lurking sexual violence, grief, and depression. Gabi, A Girl in Pieces reveals that the creation of political art, the practice of writing, and the role of Chicana poetics can serve as vital creative outlets for Chicana outsiders, be they nerds, goths, geeks, or freaks.

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