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Bickford, John H. "The representations of LGBTQ themes and individuals in non-fiction young adult literature." Social Studies Research and Practice 12, no. 2 (September 11, 2017): 182–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ssrp-05-2017-0021.

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Purpose Social justice themes permeate the social studies, history, civics, and current events curricula. The purpose of this paper is to examine how non-fiction trade books represented lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals and issues. Design/methodology/approach Trade books published after 2000 and intended for middle grades (5-8) and high school (9-12) students were analyzed. Findings Findings included main characters’ demography, sexuality, and various ancillary elements, such as connection to LGBTQ community, interactions with non-LGBTQ individuals, the challenges and contested terrain that LGBTQ individuals must traverse, and a range of responses to these challenges. Publication date, intended audience, and subgenre of non-fiction – specifically, memoir, expository, and historical text – added nuance to findings. Viewed broadly, the books generally engaged in exceptionalism, a historical misrepresentation, of one singular character who was a gay or lesbian white American. Diverse sexualities, races, ethnicities, and contexts were largely absent. Complex resistance structures were frequent and detailed. Originality/value This research contributes to previous scholarship exploring LGBTQ-themed fiction for secondary students and close readings of secondary level non-fiction trade books.

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Tribunella, Eric L. "LGBTQ Young Adult Fiction: A Critical Survey, 1970s–2010s by Caren J. Town." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 43, no. 2 (2018): 212–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/chq.2018.0023.

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Salt-Raper, Emma. "“I’m Going to Be Straight, Just Like How My Father Would’ve Wanted”." Boyhood Studies 15, no. 1-2 (December 1, 2022): 25–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/bhs.2022.15010203.

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While the increasing visibility of LGBTQ+ identities in recent young adult fiction has received much critical attention, such novels that contain the added complex distinction of adolescent male mental illness and recovery represent an underexamined area. This article produces readings of two recent young adult texts that feature gay male protagonists who experience mental illness: Adam Silvera’s More Happy Than Not (2015) and John Corey Whaley’s Highly Illogical Behaviour (2016). It investigates how the texts’ embedded heteronormative scripts, relationships between the symptoms and the self, and frameworks of health-related shame are fraught with anxieties, producing a complex double movement that simultaneously establishes and undermines gay males’ control over their mental illnesses and recovery trajectories to move the characters between spaces of empowerment and marginalization.

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Seijas-Pérez, Iria. "Irish Girlhood and Female Sexuality in Claire Hennessy’s Like Other Girls." Estudios Irlandeses, no. 17 (March 17, 2022): 65–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.24162/ei2022-10636.

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In recent years, the success of Irish female authors and the increase of Irish Young Adult literature publications have contributed to a wider recognition of narratives of girlhood. Such is the case of Claire Hennessy’s YA fiction novel Like Other Girls, which focuses on the experiences of sixteen-year-old Lauren Carroll as she navigates being a queer young female in contemporary Ireland and deals with having an abortion in the pre-Repeal Republic. This article analyses Like Other Girls focusing on three key aspects depicted in the novel: female body and sexuality, the concept of an LGBTQ+ group as a support network for queer youth, and the experience of abortion in pre-Repeal Ireland. Such analysis is carried out with the objective of giving recognition of Irish girlhood, as well as acknowledging the importance of narratives where the female body, diverse sexualities and those concerns involved in growing up female in contemporary Ireland are depicted so that young girls can find a space to identify themselves.

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Miles, Brittney. "Theorizing Conscious Black Asexuality through Claire Kann’s Let’s Talk about Love." Humanities 8, no. 4 (October 18, 2019): 165. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h8040165.

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Asexuality is often defined as some degree of being void of sexual attraction, interest, or desire. Black asexual people have been made invisible, silent, or pathologized in most fiction, scholarly literature, and mainstream LGBTQ movements. Claire Kann’s 2018 young adult romance novel, Let’s Talk About Love, explores Black asexuality at the intersection of race and (a)sexuality. Through the story of the Black, bi-romantic, asexual, 19 year-old college student Alice Johnston, this text illuminates the diversity of Black sexuality in the Black Diaspora. Using a Black feminist sociological literary analysis to complete a close reading of the novel, I interrogate what Let’s Talk about Love offers for defining a Black asexual politic. To consider Black asexual politics beyond the controlling images of the asexual Mammy figure, and not merely in juxtaposition to the hypersexual Jezebel, calls us to instead center agency and self-definition. This project seeks to answer what Conscious Black Asexuality is, why it is a necessary concept for asexuality studies and the Diaspora, where we locate Black asexuality in Black history, and how Let’s Talk about Love by Claire Kann presents a depiction of Black agentic queerness that reclaims agency and intimacy within one’s sexual politics.

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MacRae, Cathi Dunn. "Presenting Young Adult Fantasy Fiction." English Journal 88, no. 3 (January 1999): 115. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/821601.

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Belbin, David. "What is young adult fiction?" English in Education 45, no. 2 (June 2011): 132–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-8845.2011.01094.x.

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White, Donna R. "Young Adult Science Fiction (review)." Lion and the Unicorn 24, no. 3 (2000): 473–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/uni.2000.0036.

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Crowe, Chris. "Young Adult Literature: Sports Literature for Young Adults." English Journal 90, no. 6 (July 1, 2001): 129–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ej2001808.

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Harrison, Jennifer. "Why Young Adult Speculative Fiction Matters." Libri et Liberi 7, no. 1 (September 11, 2018): 172–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.21066/carcl.libri.2018-07(01).0009.

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Banks, William P. "Literacy, Sexuality, and the Value(s) of Queer Young Adult Literatures." English Journal 98, no. 4 (March 1, 2009): 33–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ej20087020.

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Kaywell, Joan F., and Kathleen Oropallo. "Young Adult Literature: Modernizing the Study of History Using Young Adult Literature." English Journal 87, no. 1 (January 1, 1998): 102–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ej19983519.

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Presents brief annotations of 61 books of young adult historical fiction and nonfiction that address other time periods (biblical time period, the 1700s, the 1800s, the 20th century, political unrest overseas, and chronicles) that could be used in the classroom as part of a unit of study. Describes possible activities using five of the books.

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Wilson, Kim. "Abjection in Contemporary Australian Young Adult Fiction." Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 11, no. 3 (December 1, 2001): 24–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/pecl2001vol11no3art1325.

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Basu, Balaka. "Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction." Contemporary Women's Writing 10, no. 1 (July 23, 2015): 147–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpv013.

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Rochelle, Warren. "Young Adult Science Fiction (review)." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 25, no. 4 (2000): 223–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/chq.0.1323.

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Mertz, Maia Pank. "Enhancing literary understandings through young adult fiction." Publishing Research Quarterly 8, no. 1 (March 1992): 23–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02680518.

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Lee, Gabriela. "Past Selves, Future Worlds: Folklore and Futurisms in Science Fiction: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults." Comparative Critical Studies 19, no. 3 (October 2022): 417–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2022.0456.

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Science fiction written specifically for young readers has had difficulty in establishing itself as a separate genre from fantasy, especially since there is a blurred notion of what constitutes fantasy vis-a-vis science fiction in children’s literature. This difficulty is reflected in the stumbling development of children’s and YA science fiction compared to the relatively clear development of children’s and YA fantasy. As such, trying to define what science fiction for young readers is takes on a malleable, inconsistent quality compared to the more established megatexts of science fiction for adult readers. It is through these unstable definitions of science fiction for adolescents that this essay examines how selected stories from the 2016 anthology Science Fiction: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults, the first anthology of Philippine sf writing that caters directly for a young adult audience, negotiate the genre definitions of ‘science fiction’ and ‘young adult’ for a non-Western audience. Studying how these imagined futures represent the experiences of young non-Western readers who have otherwise been excluded from YA science fiction reveals how the genre can widen and expand its parameters.

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Mason, Tyler B. "Binge Eating and Overweight and Obesity Among Young Adult Lesbians." LGBT Health 3, no. 6 (December 2016): 472–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/lgbt.2015.0119.

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Saxena, Vandana. "‘Live. And remember’: History, memory and storytelling in young adult holocaust fiction." Literature & History 28, no. 2 (September 14, 2019): 156–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306197319870380.

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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.

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Katelyn Mathew. "How Young Adult Crime Fiction Influences and Reflects Modern Adolescents." Digital Literature Review 10, no. 1 (April 18, 2023): 108–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/dlr.10.1.108-119.

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When we read crime fiction, we oftentimes expect a cast dominated by adult characters. This is likely a result of decades’ worth of popular crime fiction narratives almost exclusively containing adult characters. The earliest literature in the mystery and crime genre that was targeted towards younger audiences contained teenage detectives and adult criminals because it allowed the younger audiences to read about powerful teenagers overthrowing adult authority while still only engaging in acceptable moral activities in an attempt to decrease or discourage juvenile delinquency. A newer trend among young adult crime fiction novels is the adolescent playing the part of the criminal in addition to the detective. Applying social cognitive theory explored in the study conducted by Black and Barnes to the roles of adolescents in Karen M. McManus’s young adult mystery novel One of Us Is Lying and its sequel One of Us Is Next, this paper will analyze the novels’ adolescent characters to show how adolescent characters in young adult crime fiction reflect their young audiences’ desires to subvert adult hierarchies while still displaying acceptable morals and how they possibly influence their sense of morality.

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Seo, Seung-hui. "Young Adult Fiction and Gender: Focusing on the Korean Young Adult Literature Award Winner." Education Research Institute, Chungbuk National University 45, no. 1 (April 30, 2024): 31–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.55152/kerj.45.1.31.

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This study focuses on the ways in which Korean society's gender norms are reinterpreted by the winners of the Young Adult Literature Awards. First, I examined how the gendered family system in Korean society has been transformed and reconfigured, and how it affects the youth identity. Families in the Young Adult Fiction do not conform to conventional models of normal families and gender role norms. However, I critically examined the direction of family narratives by pointing out that the newly transformed familism limits the imagination of Young Adult Fiction. Next, I examined the representation of adolescent sexuality as a consistent practice. Male adolescents were often portrayed as the protagonists of events, which is problematic from a gender-sensitive perspective, and female adolescent sexuality had largely been addressed in the realm of pregnancy, abortion, and childbirth. However, I expect to see more narratives exploring female sexual self-determination in a new light. Finally, I highlighted issues of queer identity that are not captured by the gender binary. The winners of the Young Adult Literature Prize tend to deal with queer identity issues in friendships, and the recent winners have portrayed queer issues in new ways and formats through a combination of family, travel narratives, and romance narratives. Unlike in the past, when queer people were categorically excluded, minority issues have recently been addressed in terms of human rights education; however, it remains to be seen whether this will generate meaningful reflections in the future.

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Markland, Anah-Jayne. "“Always Becoming”: Posthuman Subjectivity in Young Adult Fiction." Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 12, no. 1 (June 2020): 208–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jeunesse.12.1.208.

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Cummins, Amy. "Dreamers: Living Undocumented in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction." Theory in Action 13, no. 2 (April 30, 2020): 80–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.3798/tia.1937-0237.2023.

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Markland, Anah-Jayne. "“Always Becoming”: Posthuman Subjectivity in Young Adult Fiction." Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 12, no. 1 (2020): 208–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jeu.2020.0014.

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Lesesne, Teri S. "BOOK TALK: What Books Should Anyone Working with Teens Know?" Voices from the Middle 9, no. 3 (March 1, 2002): 47–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/vm20022404.

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Presents an annotated list of 44 young adult books that represent the wide range of young adult literature available for teens. Represents a variety of genres from poetry to science fiction/fantasy to historical fiction and story collections. Lists the 2002 winners for six major awards.

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Kyobutungi Tumwesigye, Alice Jossy. "Young Adult Vulnerabilities in the Fiction of a Ugandan Woman Writer." Global Research in Higher Education 5, no. 1 (March 8, 2022): p22. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/grhe.v5n1p22.

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Questions of identity, power, autonomy and vulnerability carry a particular weight in cultures that have emerged from colonialism. Although few writers of fiction focus on the conflicts between African and European characters, a focus on power and marginalisation remains. One category in which this focus may be plainly seen is writing for and about young people. The study’s aim was to analyse young adult fiction written by a Ugandan female author, Barbara Kimenye to investigate this writing to find out how young adult vulnerability is depicted in literature. Although literature targeting young people in Uganda has flourished and though issues of limited representation have been scrutinised in literary studies, like gender discrimination, very limited attention has been accorded young adult representation in literature. This research analyses fiction written by a female author Barbara Kimenye to expand knowledge about the criticism of young adult representation in literature with particular focus on young adult vulnerability in an adult dominated world. The methodology was mainly qualitative research design, where a document analysis method was used to aid analysis and make critical appreciation of the fictional works. The study investigated the state of young adult characters in literature with special focus on their vulnerability.

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Masson, Sophie. "No Traveller Returns: The Liminal World as Ordeal and Quest in Contemporary Young Adult Afterlife Fiction." Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 26, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 60–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/pecl2018vol26no1art1090.

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In recent years, fiction specifically set in or about the afterlife has become a popular, critically acclaimed subgenre within contemporary fiction for young adults. One of the distinguishing aspects of young adult afterlife fiction is its detailed portrayal of an alien afterworld in which characters find themselves. Whilst reminiscent of the world-building of high or quest fantasy, afterworlds in young adult afterlife fiction have a distinctively different quality, and that is an emphasis on liminality. Afterlife landscapes exhibit many strange, treacherous qualities. They are never quite what they seem, and this sense of a continually shifting multiplicity is part of the destabilisation experienced by the characters in the liminal world of the afterlife. Inspired by traditional but diverse images of afterlife, afterworld settings also incorporate aspects of dream-space as well as of the real, material world left behind by the characters. The uncanny world of the dead is not just background in these novels, but crucial to the development of narrative and character. In this paper, it is argued that the concept of liminal place is at the core of the central ordeal and quest of characters in young adult afterlife fiction. It explores how authors have constructed the individual settings of their fictional afterworlds and examines the significance of the liminal nature of the afterworlds depicted in young adult afterlife fiction.

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Adami, Valentina. "The Pedagogical Value of Young-Adult Speculative Fiction: Teaching Environmental Justice through Julie Bertagna’s Exodus." Pólemos 13, no. 1 (April 24, 2019): 127–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pol-2019-0007.

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Abstract The environmental crisis is one of the most pressing societal concerns today. Speculative fiction frequently questions current political, legal and cultural attitudes by portraying future scenarios in which some ecological disaster has changed the world order. Scottish children’s author Julie Bertagna has given her contribution to these speculations on the consequences of letting current trends in environmental behaviour continue unchallenged with her young-adult novel Exodus (2002), part of a trilogy continued in 2007 with Zenith and completed in 2011 with Aurora. This paper explores the pedagogical value of young-adult speculative fiction and examines Bertagna’s survival narrative as a questioning of environmental justice, in the light of contemporary theories on young-adult fiction, ecocriticism and human rights.

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Kessler, Deirdre. "Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction by Alice Curry." Swamphen: a Journal of Cultural Ecology (ASLEC-ANZ) 4 (March 5, 2015): 72. http://dx.doi.org/10.60162/swamphen.4.10623.

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Russo, Stephanie. "Contemporary Girlhood and Anne Boleyn in Young Adult Fiction." Girlhood Studies 13, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 17–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2020.130103.

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Anne Boleyn has been narrativized in Young Adult (YA) historical fiction since the nineteenth century. Since the popular Showtime series The Tudors (2007–2010) aired, teenage girls have shown increased interest in the story of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second and most infamous queen. This construction of Boleyn suggests that she was both celebrated and punished for her proto-feminist agency and forthright sexuality. A new subgenre of Boleyn historical fiction has also recently emerged—YA novels in which her story is rewritten as a contemporary high school drama. In this article, I consider several YA novels about Anne Boleyn in order to explore the relevance to contemporary teenage girls of a woman who lived and died 500 years ago.

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Ball, Jonathan. "Young Adult Science Fiction as a Socially Conservative Genre." Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 3, no. 2 (December 2011): 162–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jeunesse.3.2.162.

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Athanasiou-Krikelis, Lissi. "Representing Turks in Greek Children's and Young Adult Fiction." International Research in Children's Literature 13, no. 1 (July 2020): 76–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2020.0329.

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What do Greek children learn about the Turk-Other from children's literature, and how does this image of the enemy inform their national Self? Has the representation of the Turk-Other remained static or do recent publications demonstrate a change in its portrayal? This article explores such questions in the context of contemporary Greek texts for children and young adults. The image of the Turk-soldier has been and remains overwhelmingly negative. The Turk who represents the Ottoman Empire is the vicious victimiser and ruthless conqueror. The Turk-friend, however, features a more complex conglomeration of attributes, some degrading and others elevating. Fictional histories, that is narratives with a strong inclination towards historical accuracy, are less favourable to the Turk-Other, aiming to preserve a homogenised version of the nation and to justify the deeds of war heroes. These observations persist throughout the twentieth century and do not deviate from the patterns found in adult literature. Nonetheless, in more recent publications the image of the Turk-Other is slightly more positive due to two related factors: the foregrounding of the weaknesses of the national Self and the problematising of the historical representation. By juxtaposing negative portrayals of both Turkish and Greek behaviours and by questioning historical truisms, the image of the Turk is being re-humanised.

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Keys, Wendy, Elizabeth Marshall, and Barbara Pini. "Representations of rural lesbian lives in young adult fiction." Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 38, no. 3 (April 3, 2017): 354–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2017.1306981.

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Ball, Jonathan. "Young Adult Science Fiction as a Socially Conservative Genre." Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 3, no. 2 (2011): 162–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jeu.2011.0016.

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Nelson, Margaret K. "The Presentation of Donor Conception in Young Adult Fiction." Journal of Family Issues 41, no. 1 (August 14, 2019): 33–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513x19868751.

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Using a thematic analysis, this study examines the presentation of donor conception in 30 books of fiction written for young adults. Most of the donor-conceived characters in these books live in single mother families, the majority are girls, and most have some kind of status as outsiders. Donor conception is presented differently depending on the type of family in which the teen lives. Children living with single mothers are most often endangered. Children living with lesbian-couple parents are most often marked as outsiders. Among children living with heterosexual-couple parents, donor conception is often presented as a significant issue that can unsettle family dynamics and lead to a search for the donor or donor siblings.

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Mafra, Hugo Figueiredo, and Rosa Inês de Novais Cordeiro. "Aspects of subject analysis in young adult commercial fiction." Informação & Informação 28, no. 2 (May 3, 2024): 353–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.5433/1981-8920.2023v28n2p353.

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Objetivo: identificar os elementos da obra de ficção comercial juvenil que se relacionam às categorias de análise estudadas (forma/gênero, enredo, personagem, espaço, tempo, temáticas recorrentes na narrativa). O intuito é de ampliar as possibilidades da busca de temas condizentes com as indagações de leitura do jovem contemporâneo, porém nos limites do conteúdo da obra. Metodologia: pesquisa bibliográfica e documental. Resultados: o exame dos livros e vídeos-resenha permite o estabelecimento de elementos do livro para análise das obras de ficção comercial juvenil, com base nas categorias já mencionadas. Os elementos da obra consistem em: capa; quarta capa; orelhas; lombada; páginas preliminares; páginas finais; título da série; título dos capítulos. Conclusões: os livros e os vídeos-resenha fornecem informações sobre o conteúdo da obra por meio dos elementos examinados e indica os aspectos da narrativa que os leitores costumam ressaltar e considerar como relevantes para a leitura, auxiliando, assim, a análise de assunto pelo indexador.

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Gillis, Candida. "Multiple Voices, Multiple Genres: Fiction for Young Adults." English Journal 92, no. 2 (November 1, 2002): 52–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ej2002987.

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Ordem, Eser, and Ömer Gökhan Ulum. "Gender Issues in English Language Teaching: Views from Turkey." Acta Educationis Generalis 10, no. 1 (April 1, 2020): 25–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/atd-2020-0002.

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AbstractIntroduction: Research into gender diversity and equality of gender in humanities has been mounting since 1960s, when post-modernism and post-structuralism emerged as a reaction to metanarratives of modernization. Methods and approaches in ELT also arose in the same years. However, queer and LGBT identities were intentionally ignored in ELT discipline and departments, although English as a lingua franca was already hailed in the inner circle. This study aimed to unearth the views of young adult learners of English regarding LGBT. Two data collection instruments were administered. A standard scale composed of 21 items that measure homosexuality attitudes was given to the participants (N= 113). In addition, a semi-structured interview was prepared to elicit the participants’ views (N=12). The results of the study show that most of the participants showed a positive attitude towards LGBT. However, they reported that this topic was never addressed in ELT settings.Methods: The study was qualitatively designed to elicit the views of young adult learners regarding homosexuality. A standard scale developed by Kite and Deaux (1986) and which was psychometrically sound and reliable to identify the attitudes towards homosexuality and a descriptive phenomenographic research method were used to learn the ideas of the participants. Phenomenographic research method aims to elicit lived experiences of individuals by using experiential description. Although there were 600 young adult learners of English, only 113 of them volunteered to participate in the study. The participants studied English as a foreign language at a public university in Turkey. The average age of the participants was 18. A semi-structured interview was conducted with 12 of the participants.Results: The findings of the study represent that most of the participants ascribed positive attitudes towards homosexuality. Further, a big number of the informants put forward the significance of such concepts as freedom and respect for personal preferences. Besides, an average number of respondents attributed homosexuality as a hormonal disorder encountered in society. The majority of the respondents put an emphasis on the taboo of religion. They revealed that homosexuality is a taboo which is strictly forbidden in Islam and such issues should not be voiced explicitly in our daily life.Discussion: This study dealt with the issue of LGBT and homosexuality in foreign language settings by taking the views of young adult learners of English into consideration. The results show that homosexuality representation is insufficient in ELT textbooks, curriculum and materials. Although most of the participants showed a positive attitude towards the representation of homosexuality, they noted that LGBT was never addressed in classroom settings. Similarly, Gray (2013) also emphasizes that LGBT identity was not represented in ELT, though considerable progress has been legally made in the UK. Nelson (2002) strongly recommends that queering ESL through discourses may help ESL develop a more diverse attitude towards LGBG identity.Limitations: This study was limited to only young adult learners in English language teaching. In addition, only two collection data tools, a standard homosexuality scale and a semi-structured interview form, were used. Besides, convenience sampling was used. The sampling was confined to 113 participants for the scale and 12 learners for the semi-structured interview form.Conclusions: The results show that most of the participants have positive attitudes towards acceptance of homosexual identities. Although ELT textbooks and materials tend to discard LGBT identity, teachers and students can queer ELT, EFL and ESL classrooms by using the tenets of progressive education and critical pedagogy. The use of participatory approach can be reinforced and expanded in ELT world encompassing not only inner circle but also outer and expanding circles. Materials, tasks and activities need to be updated in ELT curriculum. The first discussions of equality of gender in post-modernist and post-structuralist theories can be perceptibly seen in ELT by endorsing and developing critical pedagogy.

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Alam, Mohd Adeel. "Paradigm Shift in Fantasy Literature: Screen Adaptations as a Source of Infotainment." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 8, no. 1 (2023): 231–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.81.28.

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In the previous two decades, young adult fiction has dominated the best-selling books, owing to its popularity and the ease with which it is widely available over the internet. Young adult fiction and high fantasy have been extensively studied in the literature in connection to a variety of genres, which also include fantasy books. Numerous researchers have examined blockbuster fantasy series in this regard. Several academics have shed new light on cinema adaptation theory or its critical examination within this area of study. As such, this study will examine the intertextual utterances seen in most significant fantasy blockbusters. The study examines a variety of disciplines, including cinema adaptations, high fantasy books, and young adult writing.

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Gibson Yates, Sarah. "Writing digital culture into the young adult novel." Book 2.0 10, no. 1 (May 1, 2020): 59–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/btwo_00020_1.

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This article investigates how creative fiction writing has responded to the problem of representing the multimodal landscape of digital culture in young adult literature (YAL). Twenty years ago, Dresang’s theory of Radical Change presented a new breed of digitally engaged YAL that addressed changes in thinking about digital technologies and how young people interacted with them. Nikolajeva predicted the phenomenon three years earlier arguing for YAL coming of age as a literary form. In this article, I argue for the necessity of this work to continue, from the perspective of author-practitioner, and for the importance for authors to develop an expanded writing practice that foregrounds formal experiment that both reflects and critiques the thematic concerns and practices of digital culture. I begin by presenting some context for the work, in the form of a brief discussion of formal experimentation within selected YAL, and then go on to discuss my methods and approaches. This creative writing practice research has been undertaken during the course of Ph.D. study that has explored combining dramatic and multimodal writing techniques into a traditional prose fiction text, in this case a novel, aimed for YAL readers.

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Zelezinskaya, N. S. "Young adult literature as a mirror of the society." Voprosy literatury 1, no. 1 (February 20, 2020): 159–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2020-1-159-175.

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The article discusses contemporary young adult and post-adolescent literatures, which respond to the modern world with its catastrophes and challenges in a more acute manner than fiction for adults. A new literary genre, the problem young adult novel needs a comprehensive literary analysis. The age bracket of the genre, which is still open for discussion, is examined by the author in detail. While young adult fiction has a different agenda from children’s literature, it often surpasses ‘grown-up’ books in terms of issues raised and their relevance, which is especially true for the problem young adult novel, typically centred on a specific problem of modern society and featuring a teenage protagonist fighting for his/her survival. The main themes of the genre include deadly diseases, trauma, adaptation of special children in the society, suicide, abuse, murder, drugs, terrorism, and others. Little discussed and often tabooed in class or at home, these topics are raised by young adult literature, while teenagers get a chance to examine them and relive their anxieties with protagonists.

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Ventura, Abbie. "Abandonment and Invisible Children in Contemporary Canadian Young Adult Fiction." Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 6, no. 2 (December 2014): 174–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jeunesse.6.2.174.

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Cronshaw, Darren. "Beyond Divisive Categorization in Young Adult Fiction: Lessons from Divergent." International Journal of Public Theology 15, no. 3 (October 27, 2021): 426–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15697320-01530008.

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Abstract Veronica Roth’s Divergent is a young adult fiction and movie franchise that addresses issues of political power, social inequity, border control, politics of fear, gender, ethnicity, violence, surveillance, personal authenticity and mind control. It is possible a large part of the popularity of the series is its attention to these issues which young Western audiences are concerned about. The narrative makes heroes of protagonists who become activists for justice and struggle against oppressive social-political systems. What follows is a literary analysis of Divergent, evaluating its treatment of public theology and social justice themes, and discussing implications for Christian activism, especially for youth and young adults. It affirms the ethos in the books of resisting oppression, and questions assumptions about gender and abuse, violence and imperial control, personal authenticity and categorization, and difference and sameness.

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Michaels, Wendy. "The Realistic Turn: Trends in Recent Australian Young Adult Fiction." Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 14, no. 1 (January 1, 2004): 49–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/pecl2004vol14no1art1277.

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Bieber, Ada, and Richard Gooding. "Streams of Consciousness: The Downriver Narrative in Young Adult Fiction." International Research in Children's Literature 13, no. 1 (July 2020): 61–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2020.0328.

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This article draws on adaptation and genre theory to argue that the downriver narrative constitutes a distinct genre in literature for youth. This genre is characterised by a repertoire of narrative elements including alternations between the river as a space of reflection and refuge, social interactions that occur on land, and the social and political commentary voiced by the river travellers. These patterns appear in diverse cultural and historical contexts, as exemplified by Auguste Lazar's Jan auf der Zille [Jan on the barge] (1934/1950), Richard Scrimger's Into the Ravine (2007), and David Almond's Heaven Eyes (2000). Published in Germany, Canada, and the UK, these novels deploy episodic accounts of journeying downstream to perform a range of cultural work, including articulating discourses about citizenship and nationhood, raising critical awareness about questions of difference, and promulgating Romantic models of childhood.

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Spencer, Kerry. "Marketing and sales in the U.S. young adult fiction market." New Writing 14, no. 3 (April 10, 2017): 429–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2017.1307419.

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Smith, Louisa. "Limitations on Young Adult Fiction: An Interview with Chris Crutcher." Lion and the Unicorn 16, no. 1 (1992): 66–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/uni.0.0125.

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Schmidt, Gary D. "The Distant Mirror: Reflections on Young Adult Historical Fiction (review)." Lion and the Unicorn 31, no. 1 (2007): 67–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/uni.2007.0008.

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Head, Patricia. "Robert Cormier and the Postmodernist Possibilities of Young Adult Fiction." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 21, no. 1 (1996): 28–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/chq.0.1267.

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Hateley, Erica. "Sink or Swim?: Revising Ophelia in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 38, no. 4 (2013): 435–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/chq.2013.0061.

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