Relevant bibliographies by topics / Young adult fiction, social themes, violence

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Journal articles on the topic "Young adult fiction, social themes, violence"

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Cronshaw, Darren. "Beyond Divisive Categorization in Young Adult Fiction: Lessons from Divergent." International Journal of Public Theology 15, no. 3 (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 t
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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 (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
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Cronshaw, Darren. "Resisting the Empire in Young Adult Fiction: Lessons from Hunger Games." International Journal of Public Theology 13, no. 2 (2019): 119–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15697320-12341568.

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AbstractHunger Games are young adult fiction and movie franchises, which address issues of Empire, border control, politics of fear, human rights, gender, ethnicity, refugees and global inequity. The narrative of Hunger Games echoes the dilemmas of balancing personal sovereignty and self-fulfillment with the struggle that goes on for advocacy for social and political change. They make heroes of protagonists who rebel against the status quo and make a stand for justice in oppressive social-political contexts. The basic plot is ancient, but it is striking a chord with a generation of westerners
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Shuo, Yang, and Manimangai Mani. "Embracing Enablement: Impairment, Community and Disability Identity in Young Adult Fiction." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 14, no. 5 (2024): 1393–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1405.11.

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Many authors in recent years have worked to encourage the inclusion of disabled people and to show disability characters in a positive light. In order to accomplish this, they tend to produce counter-disability characters and scenarios to promote enablement. This textual analysis focuses on three young adult fictions that provide positive portrayals of protagonists with disability, including Out of My Mind (Draper, 2010), Five Flavors of Dumb (John, 2010) and Jerk, California (Friesen, 2008). Drawing on the social identity theory and the social model, this paper explores how the protagonists'
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Altrows, Aiyana. "Silence and the Regulation of Feminist Anger in Young Adult Rape Fiction." Girlhood Studies 12, no. 2 (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
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Jenney, Angelique, and Deinera Exner-Cortens. "Toxic Masculinity and Mental Health in Young Women." Affilia 33, no. 3 (2018): 410–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886109918762492.

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The recent release of the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, which focuses on the suicide of an adolescent girl, has been accompanied by a large amount of social commentary. However, most of this commentary focuses on the suicide itself and does not consider how the series constructs the root causes of suicide. In this brief article, we argue that from a feminist social work perspective, the series highlights a key root cause of mental health problems—sexual violence—and that the discussion of this violence has been woefully absent in the commentary on the series. To support this argument, we high
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Thornton, Victoria. "Understanding the emotional impact of domestic violence on young children." Educational and Child Psychology 31, no. 1 (2014): 90–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpsecp.2014.31.1.90.

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Young children who live with domestic violence represent a significantly disempowered group. Developmentally, young children have relatively limited verbal skills and emotional literacy. In addition, the context created by domestic violence frequently involves an atmosphere of secrecy and intimidation, as well as reduced emotional availability from children’s main caregivers. Taken together, these factors severely restrict these young children’s capacity and opportunities to make their voices and needs heard. This qualitative study gave children who had lived with domestic violence, the opport
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Kellett, Kathleen. "Monster Book Club." Magistra Iadertina 19, no. 2 (2025): 35–62. https://doi.org/10.15291/magistra.4724.

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Due to the limits on minors’ legal, geographic, and financial agency, many young people face difficulties directly engaging in civic activity or political activism. Researchers must therefore find creative, desire-centered ways of engaging with youth theories in a manner that is accessible to a broad number of young people. This paper explores the methodologies and theoretical findings of a six-month digital ethnographic study in which twelve American teenagers read and analyzed works of young adult speculative fiction that explore political themes through the central metaphor of monstrosity.
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Reed, Elizabeth, Jay G. Silverman, Anita Raj, et al. "Social and Environmental Contexts of Adolescent and Young Adult Male Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence: A Qualitative Study." American Journal of Men's Health 2, no. 3 (2008): 260–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557988308318863.

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The purpose of the current study was to examine qualitatively the life contexts of young males enrolled in programs addressing perpetration of intimate partner violence (IPV). Semistructured interviews were conducted with 19 males recruited from these programs. Interviews were coded to examine life contexts and analyzed using a content analysis approach. Five themes emerged across interviews: ( a) disruptive home environment; ( b) lack of positive male role models; ( c) a peer context characterized by substance use, gang involvement, and behaviors supporting the sexual maltreatment of girls; (
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López Ramírez, Manuela. "The Theme of the Shattered Self in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and A Mercy." Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies 48 (January 7, 2014): 75–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20138832.

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Throughout her fiction Toni Morrison has frequently dealt with traumatized individuals, who usually belong to minority groups, especially Blacks. The fragmentation of the self and the search for identity are pervasive themes of her novels. In The Bluest Eye and A Mercy Morrison explores the passage to adulthood of two deeply traumatized teenage girls. Victimized communities or those under the threat of violence, such as primeval America, discriminate and denigrate their weakest members. Thus Pecola and Sorrow are vulnerable victims of social oppression, scapegoats. In a critical stage of their
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Young adult fiction, social themes, violence"

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Chamberlain, Marlize. "The carceral in literary dystopia: social conformity in Aldous Huxley’s Brave new world, Jasper Fford’s Shades of grey and Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy." Diss., 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26525.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-127)<br>This dissertation examines how three dystopian texts, namely Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Jasper Fforde’s Shades of Grey and Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy, exhibit social conformity as a disciplinary mechanism of the ‘carceral’ – a notion introduced by poststructuralist thinker Michel Foucault. Employing poststructuralist discourse and deconstructive theory as a theoretical framework, the study investigates how each novel establishes its world as a successful carceral city that incorporates most, if not all, the elements of
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Books on the topic "Young adult fiction, social themes, violence"

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Pickett, Michelle. Unspeakable. Clean Teen Publishing, 2014.

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ill, Robinson Stacey, and Jennings John ill, eds. I am Alfonso Jones. Lee & Low Books, Incorporated, 2017.

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Crongton : Liccle Bit: Book 1. Hachette Children's Group, 2023.

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Sanchez, Jenny Torres. We Are Not from Here. Penguin Young Readers Group, 2021.

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Sanchez, Jenny Torres. We Are Not from Here. Penguin Young Readers Group, 2020.

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Sanchez, Jenny Torres. We Are Not from Here. Philomel Books, 2021.

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McClintock, Norah. Back. Orca Book Publishers, 2009.

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Back. Orca Book Publishers USA, 2020.

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McClintock, Norah. Back. Orca Book Publishers, 2009.

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Duncan, Lois. Killing Mr. Griffin. Little, Brown Book Group Limited, 2011.

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Book chapters on the topic "Young adult fiction, social themes, violence"

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Seal, Lizzie, and Maggie O’Neill. "Imagining Dystopian Futures in Young Adult Fiction." In Imaginative Criminology. Policy Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529202687.003.0007.

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This chapter discusses how it is notable that ‘speculative fiction’ – fiction that creates alternative worlds – frequently addresses themes of deviance, transgression and ordering. It identifies themes of surveillance and spectacle; hyperreality and virtual reality; memory and the suppression of history; and hierarchy and difference in dystopian fiction aimed at young adults – The Hunger Games (Collins, 2008), The Maze Runner (Dashner, 2009), Divergent (Roth, 2011) and Red Rising (Brown, 2014). The chapter explores the role of this fiction in cultural imaginings of social control, repression a
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Berk, Laura E. "The Child in Contemporary Culture." In Awakening Children's Minds. Oxford University Press, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195124859.003.0011.

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In this chapter, I take up dilemmas that today’s parents face in rearing young children. Throughout this book, we have touched on myriad forces that make contemporary parenting highly challenging. These include one-sided, contradictory messages in the parenting-advice literature; career pressures that impinge on parent involvement in children’s lives; abysmally weak American child-care services to assist employed parents in their child-rearing roles; cultural violence and excessive materialism permeating children’s worlds; schools with less than optimal conditions for children’s learning; and
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