scholarly journals Ungdomslitteratur former(er) sig

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (75) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayoe Quist Henkel
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Reading Process ◽  
Special Role ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Way

“Young Adult Literature in Transformation”Through a media attentive analysis of the novel Akavet by Ronnie Andersen (2014) and brief discussions of other popular novels for and about young adults, this article examines the way young adult literature develops in dialogue with digital and media-based impulses and the consequences this development may have for the predication of youth and the aesthetics and possible characteristics of young adult literature. The article is based on a materiality approach especially inspired by N. Katherine Hayles which has not previously been given attention in the reading of young adult literature or in discussions of possible characteristics of young adult literature. It also includes a discussion of and a variation of Hayles’ triad of form, content and medium, and it assigns a special role to the reader’s articulation inasmuch as Akavet entails a denaturalization of the reading process. From this basis it discusses the classic assumption that young adult literature is about young people’s development process from childhood to adulthood, outlining a passage characterized by linearity, maturity and growth. The article concludes that some young adult literature is realized on yet other premises and that Akavet can be seen as an exponent for a movement from young adult literature as stories of coming-of-age to stories of being-in-age. 

scholarly journals Voice and Silence in Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. BB102-BB118
Author(s):  
Helma Van Lierop-Debrauwer
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Voice And Silence

In 2014, the American writer Jacqueline Woodson published Brown Girl Dreaming, the story of her childhood in free verse, which was classified as young adult literature. Most US reviewers characterized and appreciated the book both as a human rights narrative of a young brown girl’s coming of age against the socio-political background of racism and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States of the 1960s, and as a personal history of her development as a writer. In this article the major focus will be on how Brown Girl Dreaming as both a political memoir and an autobiographical narrative of identity formation is fleshed out. On the basis of my analysis of these two plot lines, I will further argue that its categorization as young adult literature disguises that the novel addresses a dual audience of adult and young readers. In my argumentation related to the political and personal character of the novel, as well as in my discussion of the crossover potential of Brown Girl Dreaming, I will focus on the presence of voice and silence.

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.

scholarly journals Athlete as Agitator, Assaulter, and Armor

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-56
Author(s):  
SHELBY BOEHM ◽  
KATHLEEN COLANTONIO-YURKO ◽  
KATHLEEN OLMSTEAD ◽  
HENRY "CODY" MILLER
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Figured Worlds ◽  
Male Athletes ◽  
English Classrooms ◽  
The Way

An increasing number of young adult literature features male athletes sexually assaulting female classmates. These books can be generative spaces for examining relationships between athletic identities and sexual violence. This manuscript provides an analysis of six YAL novels addressing sexual assault: Moxie (Mathieu, 2017), The Nowhere Girls (Reed, 2017), The Way I Used to Be (Smith, 2017), Some Boys (Blount, 2014), Asking For It (O’Neill, 2016), All the Rage (Summers, 2015). The authors examine athlete identities and figured worlds in the six titles and then present teaching suggestions to investigate in English classrooms athlete identities and sexual assault.

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

Young Adult Literature: 1980 Books for Young Adults

1980 ◽  
Vol 69 (8) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
G. Robert Carlsen ◽  
Paul D. Hauser ◽  
Elizabeth A. Belden
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature

Ethical Problems of Young-Adult Genre and Book Video Bloging, As Formation of a Reading Circle in Modern Youth

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-31
Author(s):  
E. Boyarshinova
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young People ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Book Market ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Current State ◽  
History Of

This paper examines the history and current state of literature for teenagers. In modern criticism young-adult genre stands out in literature for adolescents. An introductory excursion into the history of the concept of “young adults” and literature for this category of readers is given. Criticism of such works is considered by video bloggers who place their clips on Youtube platform. It is analyzed whether these responses affect the book market conditions. According to the most conservative estimates, more than half of the literature published by major publishers is Young-adult books. They are read not only by teenagers, but also by adults who want to immerse themselves in their youth. The theme of Young-adult literature is serious and multifaceted. It attracted both professional authors, whose works become real literary events, and young, non-professional authors. The study of these works is important from the point of view of studying the sociology of teenage life, to understand what young people live, what problems are reflected in such works, albeit in a crooked mirror.

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