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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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Geybels, Lindsey. "Shuffling Softly, Sighing Deeply: A Digital Inquiry into Representations of Older Men and Women in Literature for Different Ages." Social Sciences 12, no. 3 (February 22, 2023): 112. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci12030112.

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When gender is brought into concerns about older people, the emphasis often lies on stereotypes connected to older women, and few comparative studies have been conducted pertaining to the representation of the intersection between older age and gender in fiction. This article argues that not only children’s literature, traditionally considered to be a carrier of ideology, plays a large part in the target readership’s age socialization, but so do young adult and adult fiction. In a large corpus of 41 Dutch books written for different ages, the representation of older men and women is studied through the verbs, grammatical possessions and adjectives associated with the relevant fictional characters, which were extracted from the texts through the computational method of dependency parsing. Older adult characters featured most frequently in fiction for adults, where, more so than in the books for younger readers, they are depicted as being prone to illness, experiencing the effects of a deteriorating body and having a limited social network. In the books for children, little to no association between older adulthood and mortality was found in the data. Ageist stereotypes pertaining to both genders were found throughout the corpus. In terms of characterization, male older adults are associated more with physicality, including matters of illness and mobility, while character traits and emotions show up in a more varied manner in connection to female older characters.

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Byrnside, Abigail, and Maggie Morris Davis. "Their Worlds Felt Smaller: Rebuilding Classroom Communities in Pandemic Times." English Journal 112, no. 1 (September 1, 2022): 80–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ej202232071.

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After several semesters of isolated online learning, students needed opportunities to reconnect; reading young adult science fiction—a genre of what-ifs—helped a class of seniors discuss how identities affect relationships.

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Vallières, Amélie, and Emmanuelle Lescouet. "Dystopie et séries young adult : former l’imaginaire politique des adolescent·e·s." RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE 17, no. 1 (September 15, 2023): 82–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.51777/relief17561.

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La littérature de science-fiction se pose la question des systèmes politiques, les plaçant au cœur de ses intrigues. Des ouvrages ou séries dystopiques young adult très populaires en font le nœud central de leur narration. Cette large réception les propulse au rang d’artéfacts culturels pour toute une génération, participant plus ou moins consciemment à la construction de son imaginaire politique. Cette habitude des jeunes protagonistes de se confronter à des systèmes de pouvoir, politiques et sociétaux, de les questionner et de les aborder dans une perspective du changement possible permet-elle d’introduire une éducation au politique auprès des jeunes lecteur·rice·s ? Dans cet article, nous cherchons à explorer, par l’entremise d’un réseau d’œuvres littéraires, les liens entre éveil au politique et représentations du pouvoir dans un corpus de science-fiction. Notre étude se concentre sur quatre séries adolescentes : Divergente de Veronica Roth, La Passe-Miroir de Christelle Dabos, La Faucheuse de Neal Shusterman et Cogito de Victor Dixen. Elle nous permettra d’établir des pistes pour aborder la littérature young adult dans le but d’aider les adolescent·e·s à développer un esprit critique sur divers enjeux politiques et sociaux présents dans leur quotidien.

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Yun, Claudia Sangmi. "Canadian Science Fiction for Children and Young Adults: Focusing on Novels from the 1980s." Korean Society for Teaching English Literature 26, no. 3 (December 31, 2022): 135–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.19068/jtel.2022.26.3.05.

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The present study overviews Canadian science fiction for children and young adults in its early history. Canada’s multiculturalism is a great resource for diversity on their literary works, but at the same time, it often turns into concerns on their national identity. Canadian novels portray this unique trait in their stories with three major features. By contrasting the technology-dominated society with the nature-friendly one, they ultimately aim for an idyllic society. Also, the works express distrust of technology and progress with concerns about negative effects on the global environment. Finally, they lie on the blurred border between fantasy adventure and science fiction. Unlike mainstream science fiction novels, Canadian children’s SF writers take the subjects of science, nature, and humans more seriously. Depicting a variety of possible future societies, they continue to emphasize both the harmony of technology and the nature and the exploration of human identity. This originality distinguishes them from other countries’ works and are sufficiently attractive to many young readers.

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Agustina, Susanti, Wan Satirah Wan Mohd Saman, Norshila Shaifuddin, and Rafidah Abdul Aziz. "Reading material selection for bibliotherapy based on blood type in young adult groups." Jurnal Kajian Informasi & Perpustakaan 10, no. 1 (June 30, 2022): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.24198/jkip.v10i1.31022.

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Blood type as biological information is still considered a prophecy and pseudoscience that still needs to be proven. It is the easiest and cheapest among other genetic identification tools.This study aimed to map reading material selections based on blood type personality. This study was a quantitative approach through cross-sectional survey. Identification was obtained from data in identity cards and laboratory blood type tests. The study population was 100 UPI LIS students with 80 samples of young adults aged 18-22 through random sampling with stratification. The samples were: 9 respondents with AB blood type and 25 with A blood type. Respondents of O and B blood types each followed the selection of the expected sample was 20 people. Each homogeneous sample filled out a questionnaire on reading material selection aspects. Results showed that 55.6% of the AB blood type chose non-fiction books such as 'how-to' related to hobbies, and 52% of A blood type tended to select non-fiction books that support their tasks and work. Also, 81.8% of B blood type chose fiction books and adventure stories opening up fantasy horizons, and 80% of O blood type chose books that did not always have to be brought to the big screen/filmed; however, they were recommended and told. In conclusion, this blood type personality model can identify young adult clients' profiles to develop bibliotherapy service programs in different types of libraries and make it easier for librarians and bibliotherapists to recommend reading materials suitable for the benefit of preventive-curative bibliotherapy.

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Fleming, Hannah. "Virtual Reality Life Writing and Young Adult Media Practice." European Journal of Life Writing 10 (December 6, 2021): BB24—BB39. http://dx.doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.10.38161.

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This article investigates the impact of digital technologies on the production of life writing texts and media for and by young adults. Five categories in total are examined: (i) Fan Fiction, (ii) life simulator games, (iii) SNS (social networking sites), (iv) VR (virtual reality) documentaries and (v) Webtoons. The article begins by synthesising numerous critical studies on children’s and digital life writing, before analysing two IVR (immersive virtual reality) documentaries in depth. It concludes by discussing the relationship between these on-the-go, online and immersive VR modes and fantasised futures, narratives of extremity and the slice of life genre.

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Cicholewski, Alena. "Empathy as an Answer to Challenges of the Anthropocene in Asian American Young Adult Science Fiction." Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal 10, no. 2 (March 28, 2023): 5–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v10i2.958.

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This article suggests that Malinda Lo’s Adaptation duology (2012-2013) and Cindy Pon’s Want duology (2017-2019) represent empathy as a desirable answer to challenges of the Anthropocene. Set in near-future Taipei, Want follows a group of teenagers who eventually become militant environmental activists. The teenage protagonists’ capacity for empathy distinguishes them from the villainous antagonist and makes them likeable for the readers despite their violent tactics. Lo’s duology features two teenagers who are turned into human/alien hybrids by extra-terrestrial scientists after a nearly fatal car accident. The procedure equips the protagonists not only with an accelerated healing ability, but also gives them access to other people’s emotions through touch. Although the teenagers at first experience their newfound superpowers as a burden, they slowly realise their significant potential for changing humanity for the better. My article will combine close readings from the novels with research from ecopedagogy to explore in how far novels like Lo’s Adaptation and Pon’s Want can encourage readers to treat their fellow human beings as well as more-than-human life forms with more empathy.

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CLARK, ROGER, and HEIDI KULKIN. "Toward a Multicultural Feminist Perspective on Fiction for Young Adults." Youth & Society 27, no. 3 (March 1996): 291–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0044118x96027003002.

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Pellegrini, Chiara. "Temporalities Beyond Transition: Form, Genre, and Contemporary Trans Novels." Studies in the Novel 55, no. 4 (2023): 492–508. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2023.a913308.

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ABSTRACT: Popular narratives about trans identity traditionally rely on a metaphorical understanding of trans embodiment as a linear and unidirectional journey. This paper discusses how this temporality is questioned, reshaped, interrupted, and sidestepped in five recent novels by trans and non-binary authors: Torrey Peters’s Detransition, Baby (2021), Andrea Lawlor’s Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl (2017), Juno Dawson’s Wonderland (2020), Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts (2017), and Alison Rumfitt’s Tell Me I’m Worthless (2021). The spatiotemporal organization of these novels negotiates the linearities that are conventionally employed in relation to trans stories, as each text engages with the conventions of specific genres—from the Bildungsroman to the picaresque, from science fiction to “chick lit,” from young adult literature to horror—in order to move beyond the structure of the personal transition journey.

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John Madoshi, Peter. "Reaction against Subordination of Women Observed from the Struggle of Hawa in Mabala’s Hawa the Bus Driver." EAST AFRICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 3, no. 1 (February 28, 2022): 67–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.46606/eajess2022v03i01.0147.

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This study examined Richard Mabala’s young adult prose fiction: Hawa the Bus Driver. The study used Social Critical Theory as a tool of analysis. Examining the work thematically, the reading revealed a struggle of the major character Hawa in Hawa the Bus Driver. The character is portrayed to have: recognition of female potentiality and the urge of equality in male dominated society. The study shows that the author in this work has drawn the characters in such a way that at the exposition of the narrative, she encounters male chauvinism and the pain of gender stereotype. Nevertheless, she emerges as heroine at the resolution by acquiring recognition and acceptance in her society. A careful reading indicates that the author, through creative writing, intends to inculcate gender education in society and he chooses juvenile audience as the area of commencement.

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Bertram, Brianne I. "How the Lion Groomed the Lamb." COMPASS 3, no. 2 (December 15, 2023): 190–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/comp64.

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Growing up in North America, girls are bombarded by messages about how they should behave. This process starts at a young age with little girls watching Disney Princess movies and learning they need to be submissive, quiet, and pretty. As they grow up, contemporary vampire fiction takes the reins and teaches girls that the ideal romance is one where they are isolated, physically weak, victimized, and afraid. In both, their purity is fetishized, and they are expected to give up everything for their male partner. This article explores both ideas throughout the span of an adolescent girl's life and then compares them to a YouTube trend “Am I pretty or ugly?” This trend has young girls who seek validation make videos that ask the internet to judge their appearance for a boost in their self-esteem. Instead, they are met with malicious comments that reinforce the ideas they were taught in the popular culture discussed above. Overall, my findings are that these messages, often created by adult men, are grooming young girls to be submissive housewives who are taught that their value as a woman is tied to a specific concept of purity, and that one’s partner being physically threatening is a sign of love.

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Ajibola, Opeyemi. "The Trauma Continuum: Narrating Deprivation, Dissent and Desecration in Elnathan John and Tricia Nwaubani’s Fiction." International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 5, no. 3 (September 30, 2023): 37–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v5i3.1343.

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Northern Nigeria has in contemporary time been renowned for dissent that manifests in civil unrest, violence and insurgency. Elnathan John’s Born on a Tuesday and Tricia Nwaubani’s Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree, are closely read, to underscore the texts’ recreation of northern Nigerian young adults’ experiences of trauma occasioned by the Boko Haram insurgency. This is to foreground the writers’ insiders’ perspectives on the causes and consequences of dissent, with a view to underscoring the novels’ contribution to a nuanced understanding of dissent as a complex and multidimensional reality. Aligning with Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s certainty on the novel’s capacity to advocate for political change, and the estimation of trauma, especially within the postcolonial context as pluralistic, I read dissent, deprivation and desecration as normatively traumatogenic categories cum sites, thereby foregrounding the primacy of social contexts and historical processes in the complex interplay of place and power that undergird insurgency. The novels reveal that youths, who bear the brunt of insurgency-induced traumas the most, must arise and raise the cudgel against the inept leaders under whose watch insurgency and banditry have become the highest income-grossing enterprise, if the trauma continuum of deprivation, dissent and desecration will be terminated.

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Drab, Ewa. "Teenage Identity in the Face of the Other in Nnedi Okorafor’s Organic Fantasy." Romanica Silesiana 19, no. 1 (June 29, 2021): 129–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/rs.2021.19.11.

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The present paper aims at discussing What Sunny Saw in the Flames by Nnedi Okorafor as a fantasy novel for children and young adults focused upon the question of self-identification. In the framework of fiction for younger audiences, the fantasy mode becomes a tool which allows to examine the topics important to young readers, such as identity and their place within the society, by providing a confrontation with the Other. The example of Nnedi Okorafor’s book, known in the USA as Akata Witch, shows how the instrumentation of a fantasy novel enables an exposition of the process in which the protagonist grows on the intellectual, emotional and cultural levels. In other words, the fantasy mode aids in the exploration of Sunny’s American-Nigerian origin, her albinism, coming of age and the comprehension of her identity. Simultaneously, as additional topics emerge from the analysis, it becomes visible that the question of the Self cannot be separated from the concept of the Other, with the lesson of empathy and respect for what is different.

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STOYANOVA, Tanya. "FANTASY AND REALITY IN THE NOVEL "ZHARI IN AFRICA" BY EMIL KORALOV." Ezikov Svyat volume 20 issue 1, ezs.swu.v20i1 (February 10, 2022): 147–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.37708/ezs.swu.bg.v20i1.19.

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The deals with the novel “Zhari in Africa” by Emil Koralov, published in 1942. The author of the paper focuses on the fantastic in the novel – the mechanisms that realize it, the relations between fantasy and realism. She pays attention to the adventure, the education, the cult of the science and the Utopia in view of the fact that this novel was created for children. Fantasy is a relatively young genre in contemporary Bulgarian literature. It was created under the influence of the translated literature and its beginning can be traced in diabolism. Between World War I and World War II far more fantastic books for children were published than for the adults. Such books were written by Emil Koralov, Elin Pelin, Nikolay Fol, etc. The accent is on adventure, travels in unknown lands and seas, and new technologies. The authors use some motifs from folklore and mythology. Emil Koralov was one of the first authors who wrote science fiction in the field of children’s literature and he was actually the most prolific writer between the World War I and the World War II. He wrote more than twenty novels for two decades. These novels were published in sequential instalments on the pages of the literary newspaper for children and teenagers “The Jolly Company”. Then these novels were exceptionally popular.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nelms, Beth, and Ben Nelms. "Young Adult Literature: The Farfaring Imagination: Recent Fantasy and Science Fiction." English Journal 74, no. 4 (April 1985): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/817316.

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Guerra, Stephanie. "Colonizing Bodies: Corporate Power and Biotechnology in Young Adult Science Fiction." Children's Literature in Education 40, no. 4 (April 7, 2009): 275–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10583-009-9086-z.

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Liu, Xinrui, Jiawen Yang, and Xinran Zhao. "An investigation into the causes of science fiction animation influencing young people’s awareness of science and technology based on the DIMT model - Love, Death and Robots as an example." SHS Web of Conferences 159 (2023): 02018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202315902018.

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As a medium, science fiction animation has a special significance for the construction of science and technology awareness among youth. As the science fiction animation market is booming and popular among young people, it is more and more urgent to explore ways to improve the impact of science fiction animation. This research report analyzes the science fiction symbolic landscape presented by the animation through the questionnaire analysis and interviews of Love, Death and Robots, and explores the meaning construction of the science fiction symbols in the animation and the dissemination path of the scientific spirit kernel, in order to explore the law of its construction of science and technology consciousness for young people, with a view to providing some reference for the innovative development of science fiction animation in China in the future.

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Ryan, Simon. "Books for boys: manipulating genre in contemporary Australian young adult fiction." Journal of Australian Studies 43, no. 3 (July 3, 2019): 396–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2019.1649798.

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Yaseen Mustafa, Suroor, and Huda H. Khalil. "Order and Chaos in Young Adult Science Fiction: A Critical Stylistic Analysis." Arab World English Journal 10, no. 3 (September 15, 2019): 133–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awej/vol10no3.9.

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Mohammed-Azizi, Rym Lina. "Verisimilitude in Young Adult Fiction: Catharsis within and through Anderson’s Speak." International Journal of Language, Literature and Culture 3, no. 6 (2023): 16–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijllc.3.6.3.

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This article highlights the protagonist’s journey in Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson towards finding an outlet to release the inner turmoil triggered by past traumatic experiences. Doing so, the paper sheds the light on the inner conflicts, as well as the major mechanisms of defense adopted by the protagonist. Just as importantly, by drawing on Kramer’s art therapy theory, the study explains how art creation and creative writing helped the protagonist and the author, respectively, release pent up emotions through a symbolic form, making them one step closer to the verbal form of self-expression.

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Stover, Lois T. "What’s New in Young Adult Literature for High School Students?" English Journal 86, no. 3 (March 1, 1997): 55–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ej19973356.

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Discusses, from the perspective of the co-editor of the National Council of Teachers of English’s annotated yearly booklist for high school students, new young adult literature and trends. Presents annotations of adolescent literature on hot topics (AIDS, abuse, death), choices and transitions, poetry, nonfiction, diversity issues, and historical fiction.

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Altrows, Aiyana. "Silence and the Regulation of Feminist Anger in Young Adult Rape Fiction." Girlhood Studies 12, no. 2 (July 1, 2019): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2019.120202.

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Bringing rape stories into popular discussion was a crucial success of the Second Wave Women’s Liberation movement. Popular culture is now inundated with rape stories. However, the repetitive scripts and schemas that dominate these are often informed by neoliberal individualism that is antithetical to feminism. The contradictions that characterize the tensions between feminism and neoliberalism in these texts are typically postfeminist, combining often inconsistent feminist rhetoric with neoliberal ideology. By examining the use of the silent victim script in young adult rape fiction, in this article I argue that most young adult rape fiction presents rape as an individual, pathological defect and a precondition to be managed by girls on an individual basis, rather than an act of violence committed against them.

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Wimmer, Lena, Gregory Currie, Stacie Friend, and Heather Jane Ferguson. "Testing Correlates of Lifetime Exposure to Print Fiction Following a Multi-Method Approach: Evidence From Young and Older Readers." Imagination, Cognition and Personality 41, no. 1 (February 20, 2021): 54–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0276236621996244.

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Two pre-registered studies investigated associations of lifetime exposure to fiction, applying a battery of self-report, explicit and implicit indicators. Study 1 ( N = 150 university students) tested the relationships between exposure to fiction and social and moral cognitive abilities in a lab setting, using a correlational design. Results failed to reveal evidence for enhanced social or moral cognition with increasing lifetime exposure to narrative fiction. Study 2 followed a cross-sectional design and compared 50–80 year-old fiction experts ( N = 66), non-fiction experts ( N = 53), and infrequent readers ( N = 77) regarding social cognition, general knowledge, imaginability, and creativity in an online setting. Fiction experts outperformed the remaining groups regarding creativity, but not regarding social cognition or imaginability. In addition, both fiction and non-fiction experts demonstrated higher general knowledge than infrequent readers. Taken together, the present results do not support theories postulating benefits of narrative fiction for social cognition, but suggest that reading fiction may be associated with a specific gain in creativity, and that print (fiction or non-fiction) exposure has a general enhancement effect on world knowledge.

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Papantonakis, Georgios. "Colonialism and Postcolonialism in Science Fiction for Greek Children." MANUSYA 13, no. 1 (2010): 24–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26659077-01301003.

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In contemporary Greek history we do not encounter the historical and social phenomena of colonialism or postcolonialism with the exception of cases where nations conquered Greek islands; the Dodecanese Islands and the Eptanisa (Seven Islands) were conquered by the English and the Italians, and Cyprus was conquered by the British in the Middle Ages and in contemporary times. These historical situations have been transferred into certain historical Greek fictions in adult literature and in the literature of children and young adult. The focus of this essay is on investigating and depicting colonialist attitudes and post-colonialist situations in science fiction for Greek Children. Initially, we attempt a brief introduction to the literature of children and young adults and mainly science fiction for children in Greece, and following this we outline the aims of our research. Then we define the terms “colonialism,” “postcolonialism” and the new suggested terms “historical colonialism” and “literary colonialism” and refer to their relationship with science fiction. This is due to the fact that the setting of these narratives “is dictated” by a group of events that the writers themselves have either brought about or believe will take place in the future. Afterwards we point out the criteria that are used to distinguish between five types of colonization in the texts and we investigate at greater length the role that children and adolescents play in the texts, as they participate actively as liberators and saviors, as protectors for peace and the environment or as characters that take on the roles of adults. The children and young adults remain passive spectators of a peaceful colonization or do not participate in the action since the heroes in the story are insects. In this case, they are limited to the role of reader. Through the study of these texts, we detect similarities to similar situations, both in antiquity and at a later date, or during contemporary times where similar policies in certain countries have been regarded. Finally, we realize that after the inversion of colonialism and the liberation of the colonized planets, these planets are governed democratically, according to Plato’s and Aristotle’s ideas on politics.

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Crowe, Chris. "Don Gallo: The Godfather of YA Short Stories." English Journal 86, no. 3 (March 1, 1997): 73–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ej19973358.

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Presents an interview with Don Gallo, editor of seven anthologies of short stories and one collection of plays, and author or editor of seven books about young adult fiction for teachers and scholars.

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Bullen, Elizabeth. "Inside story: product placement and adolescent consumer identity in young adult fiction." Media, Culture & Society 31, no. 3 (May 2009): 497–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443709102722.

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Kriegh, LeeAnn, and Mary Jo Kane. "A Novel Idea: Portrayals of Lesbians in Young Adult Sports Fiction." Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal 6, no. 2 (October 1997): 23–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/wspaj.6.2.23.

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Over the past two decades, sport media scholars have demonstrated that female athletes are portrayed in ways that trivialize and undermine their accomplishments as highly skilled competitors, thus denying them power. More recently, scholars in a related field of knowledge—homophobia in women’s athletics—have also addressed the various ways in which power is denied to sportswomen. Although scholars within both bodies of knowledge have investigated institutional structures, ideologies and practices by which men continue to monopolize sport, few studies have explicitly linked sport media scholarship to the literature on homophobia in women’s athlet. An additional limitation in both fields of knowledge is that analyses focused primarily on adult female athletes; examinations of adolescent females are virtually nonexistent. A final limitation is that the vast majority of studies have focused on print and broadcast journalism, thereby ignoring another influential medium, young adult sports fiction. Therefore, the purpose of our investigation was to extend the knowledge base in three ways: 1) to explicitly link two bodies of knowledge concerned with women’s athleticism--sport media and homophobia/heterosexism; 2) to focus on a population that has been sorely neglected; and 3) to investigate a rich new area of analysis-young adult literature-particularly as it relates to the presence, and characterization of, lesbians in sport.The sample consisted of novels meeting the following criteria: (a) published for a young adult audience, (b) featured a female athlete as protagonist, (c) had sport as a major characteristic of the story, and (d) and be published during or after 1970. Using a qualitative methodology, we examined themes and character portrayals related to the suppression and oppression of young sportswomen in general and lesbians in particular. More specifically, we were interested in whether manifestations of homophobia in women’s athletics (e.g., silence and denial) were present in the novels under consideration. Results indicated that a lesbian presence was subverted in numerous ways, ranging from explicit verbal attacks on female protagonists accused of being “freaks,” to more subtle, apologetic constructions in which female athletes were characterized as ultra-feminine. These findings suggest that the homophobic and heterosexist coverage given to sportswomen in print and broadcast journalism extends into young adult sports fiction.

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Ferreira, Aline. "New Bodies, New Identities? The Negotiation of Cloning Technologies in Young Adult Fiction." NanoEthics 13, no. 3 (November 28, 2019): 245–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11569-019-00353-4.

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Mitchell, Claudia. "Feminist Activism against Rape Culture." Girlhood Studies 14, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): v—vi. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2021.140101.

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I met Roxanne Harde, the guest editor of this Special Issue, at the Second International Girls Studies Association conference in 2019 when I attended the panel discussion, “Representations of Rape in Young Adult Fiction.” I recall Roxanne’s passion vividly and, indeed, the enthusiasm of all three presenters as they discussed a variety of texts in superb presentations that aligned well with Ann Smith’s notion of feminism in action in their seeing “a fictional text not only as a literary investigation into issues of concern to its author but also as the site of educational research” (2000: 245). Their papers pointed to the ways in which the analysis of how rape culture is treated in Young Adult (YA) literature, film, and the print media can take scholars and activists so much further into the issues, and, at the same time, noted the ways in which rape culture in all its manifestations as a global phenomenon has inevitably led to its becoming an everyday topic of YA fiction.

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Свитенко, Наталья Вячеславовна. "“UGLY SWANS”: VALUE ORIENTATIONS OF TEENAGERS IN THE NOVELLA OF А. AND B. STRUGATSKY." Bulletin of the Chuvash State Pedagogical University named after I Y Yakovlev, no. 4(113) (December 30, 2021): 64–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.37972/chgpu.2021.113.4.008.

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Формирование образа будущего писатели-фантасты начинают с постановки вопроса: «Кто такой человек?». В центре художественного исследования авторов повести «Гадкие лебеди» (1967) - самые актуальные проблемы сегодняшнего дня: содержание и смысл «человеческого» в человеке, формирование нравственной «арматуры» личности в подростковом возрасте, соотношение этики и интеллекта в системе ценностей молодого поколения, роль и статус учителя в период взросления. В статье рассматриваются особенности художественной репрезентации образов подростков в аксиологическом аспекте: исследуются условия формирования сознания «вундеркиндов» и причины их коллективной дивергенции. В повести логика работы предполагает движение аналитики от генезиса подросткового сознания, обусловленного мотивами распада дома и семьи, интенсивного взросления под влиянием интеллектуального авторитета «мокрецов»-идеологов, к интерпретации смысла заглавия повести в перспективе интертекстуального диалога с одной из самых известных сказок Г. Х. Андерсена в контексте нравственно-этической проблематики (повесть была впервые опубликована в 1986 году под заглавием «Прекрасный утенок»). Культурно-исторический метод исследования в сочетании с методикой филологического анализа текста позволили сделать вывод о том, что экзистенциальная сторона мировосприятия подростков в повести проявляется как экстенсивное переживание нигилизма, основанного на отрицании базовых понятий социокультурного бытия взрослых, а духовная аскеза и интеллектуальное развитие без нравственно-этической доминанты приводят к личностной деформации - распаду души и гибели Человека. Science fiction writers begin shaping the image of the future by asking the question: “What is the human like?”. In the center of artistic research of the authors of the story “The Ugly Swans” (1967) are the most pressing problems of the present day: the content and meaning of the “human” in a person, the formation of a moral “frame” of the personality in adolescence, the correlation of ethics and intellect in the value system of the younger generation, the role and status of the teacher during growing up. Тhe paper dwells upon the peculiarities of artistic representation of the image of a teenager in the axiological aspect: the conditions for the formation of young “prodigies” consciousness and the reasons for their collective divergence. The analysis of the work goes from the genesis of adolescent consciousness conditioned by the motives of the disintegration of home and family, the intensive maturation influenced by the intellectual authority of the “four-eyes”-ideologists (leper people suffering from disfiguring “yellow leprosy” manifesting itself as yellow circles around the eyes), to the interpretation of the meaning of the title of the story in the perspective of an intertextual dialogue with one of the most famous fairy tales by Hans.Chrisitian h. Andersen in the context of moral and ethical issues (the story was first published in 1986 under the title “The Beautiful Duckling”). The cultural-historical research method in combination with the method of philological analysis of the text made it possible to conclude that the existential side of the adolescents’ worldview is manifested as an extensive experience of nihilism based on the denial of the basic foundations of the socio-cultural being of adults, and spiritual asceticism and intellectual development without moral and ethical dominant leads to personal deformation - the decay of the soul and death of the Human.

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Henderson, Alex. "From Painters to Pirates: A Study of Non-Binary Protagonists in Young Adult Fiction." International Journal of Young Adult Literature 3, no. 1 (November 2, 2022): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.24877/ijyal.62.

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La Mar, David M. "Books for the Teenage Reader: Grappling with the Shortage of Young-Adult Wrestling Fiction." English Journal 80, no. 7 (November 1, 1991): 87–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ej19918241.

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Kim, Dahye. "Who Is Afraid of Techno-Fiction? The Emergence of Online Science Fiction in the Age of Informatization." Journal of Korean Studies 27, no. 2 (October 1, 2022): 305–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/07311613-9859850.

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Abstract An important and distinctive characteristic of the emergence of South Korean science fiction for an adult readership is its flourishing in digital space, predominantly written by the new generation of middle-class, techno-savvy youth beginning in the late 1980s. This article, which terms these science fiction texts from the late 1980s through the 1990s “techno-fiction,” begins by examining how contemporary literary critics viewed both science fiction and the practice of digital writing as concerning symptoms of “postmodernity” that threatened older aesthetic axioms of the literary field. For these critics, techno-fiction signified the empirical facts not only that increasing numbers of texts were being produced via the mediation of computer technology but, even more concerning, that the larger, politico-economic transformation of informatization was radically restructuring the cultural landscape and everyday cultural practices. Building on these critics’ calls to pay attention to the rising middle-class habitus and related cultural techniques to better understand the state of literature and culture in the age of information, and set against the backdrop of state-initiated and neoliberal processes of informatization, this article closely examines how these middle-class youth grew up to become key players in the production and consumption of techno-fiction.

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Nandi, Shibasambhu. "Science Fiction and Film: An Analytical Study of Two Select Indian Movies." International Journal of English Learning & Teaching Skills 5, no. 4 (July 3, 2023): 3438–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.15864/ijelts.5407.

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Science fiction is a genre of art that caters to the popular taste of the people. It presents a world mixed with science and fictional elements. It can be taken as a microcosm of fictional literature. It uses to present unfamiliar and unknown things in a familiar and known way. It provides its diverse themes and issues not only in texts but also in films. When science fiction is adapted into movies, it is able to attract a large number of audiences specially the young generation of writers. Science fictional films cover the issues like future society, challenges created by scientific developments, human enhancement through science and technology, human-machine clash, hybrid identity, world of aliens, and Artificial Intelligences. There are many films in western countries covering the issue of science fiction. Production houses designed the films in such a way that it can make an appeal to the audience. Even in India, there are several science fiction films. From 1952 to the present, Indian cinema contributes a lot by producing one after another attracting films on the theme of science fiction. The present paper is going to analyze two films Koi...Mill Gaya and its sequel Krish 3 from the perspectives of science fiction. The paper will also try to present the history of science fiction films in India and in the West. It attempts to depict the science fictional elements and new techniques shown in the films. These films are the representations of future society which accepts the inhabitation of different beings like modified human, superhuman and aliens.

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Marsden, Stevie. "Melanie Ramdarshan Bold: Inclusive Young Adult Fiction: Authors of Colour in the United Kingdom." Publishing Research Quarterly 35, no. 4 (August 29, 2019): 729–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12109-019-09684-2.

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