Journal articles: 'Young adult fiction'

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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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Košmrlj, Lea. "The Paradox of Historical Fiction." Acta Neophilologica 57, no. 2 (December 17, 2024): 45–61. https://doi.org/10.4312/an.57.2.45-61.

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In light of the fact/fiction divide, this paper delves into the literary genre of historical fiction for young adults and re-examines the disputed boundaries between fact and fiction. Exploring Lois Lowry’s Number the Stars, a work of historical fiction for young adults about life in Nazi-occupied Denmark, this discussion addresses the paradoxical nature of historical fiction: it is the fictional elements of historical fiction that play the crucial part in bringing historical facts closer to the young adult reader.

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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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Wakota, John. "Liminality in Tanzanian Young Adult fiction." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 61, no. 2 (December 5, 2024): 59–67. https://doi.org/10.17159/tl.v61i2.17977.

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Common in many young adult novels are the challenges of transitioning from childhood to adulthood. During this transition, young adult characters take on ambiguous statuses and responsibilities. The liminal or threshold state is the term used to describe this transition. This article examines the transition along with how the young adult characters in selected Tanzanian young adult novels navigate it: The Birthday Party (2013) by Mkama Mwijarubi, The Temporary Orphan (2014) by Hussein Tuwa, The Adventures of Kulwa and Doto (2017) by Hussein Kayera, and If She Were Alive (2019) by Deus Lubacha. In this case, liminality serves as a framework for analysing the portrayal of the precariousness of the transition and the different strategies that young adult characters use to reveal just how the transition is both limiting and enabling. Nonetheless, given the disparity in power between the young adults and their parents/guardians, and awareness of their vulnerability, the young adult characters invent different strategies to pretend to be conforming to parental expectations while simultaneously crafting alternative ways to expose the shortcomings of the adult society. Many of the tensions in the texts can be attributed to the parents and the young adult characters’ differing ideas of what it means to be a child and an adult. Put otherwise, the notions of childhood and adulthood are just as elusive as the transition itself.

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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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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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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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Mackey, Margaret. "Formative Young Adult Literature: Negotiating the Terms of Reading." Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 14, no. 2 (December 1, 2022): 180–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jeunesse-2022-0004.

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Joshua Landy says “formative fictions” help us fine-tune our mental capacities. This article looks at how novels for young adults may challenge readers to fine-tune their capacities as readers of more complex fiction. Three sample titles ( I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, The Tricksters by Margaret Mahy, and Slay by Brittney Morris) make use of character-authors to invite readers to negotiate the terms of reading. Young readers normally have extensive childhood experience in the social negotiation of the terms of make-believe games (“You be the daddy”) and can apply this expertise to the challenge of these novels as they interact with the explicit observations of the heroines about the making of stories. This article takes up Aidan Chambers’ challenge to analyze materials for youth as a separate literature. By exploring the work of three novels published over a 70-year span, (the titles were published in 1948, 1986, and 2019), it meets his demand to include the history of youth literature in our considerations. In these sample texts, young readers are invited to turn back to early childhood in order to make use of the skills and experience of fictional engagement as first developed in pretend games; as a consequence, they develop more subtle capacities as interpreters of complex fiction, thus addressing a major challenge of what Chambers calls “the age between.”

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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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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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Wortley, Emma. "‘The world of television microwave dinners, air-conditioning and Have a Nice Day’: Representations of Globalisation in Two Young Adult Novels." International Research in Children's Literature 2, no. 2 (December 2009): 278–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e175561980900074x.

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Young adult fiction that overtly engages with globalisation has emerged over the past decade, reflecting a growing cultural attendance to a phenomenon that purportedly shapes our world. Fictional narratives, including young adult novels, provide one sphere of information, ideas and attitudes related to globalisation. This paper examines globalisation as represented by discourses associated with mass media and consumerism in two young adult novels: So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld (2004) and Deep Fried by Bernard Beckett and Clare Knighton (2006) . With a focus on the depiction of brand names and advertising in So Yesterday and television in Deep Fried, this article presents textual examples that convey ambivalence toward discourses associated with globalisation and argues that in this respect the texts are somewhat open and questioning rather than entirely deterministic or didactic. While, overall, So Yesterday and Deep Fried are not particularly radical, the ambivalent aspects of the texts suggest that young adult fiction has the potential to produce more interrogative narratives in which the globalised world and the young adult's place within it are negotiable rather than inevitable.

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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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Deininger, Michelle. "Review: The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction." International Journal of Young Adult Literature 4, no. 1 (December 10, 2023): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.24877/ijyal.118.

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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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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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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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Dahal, Arvind. "Morbidity in Young Adult Literature: A Case Study in the Outsiders." Interdisciplinary Journal of Management and Social Sciences 1, no. 1 (October 1, 2020): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijmss.v1i1.34501.

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The inevitable and universal nature of death has made it a popular topic in Young Adult literature. While death recurs in these stories however, death in young adult novels is much darker and more complex. In this light, this paper discusses why is the issue of death in Young Adult fiction is still a safe place to discuss from the novel “The Outsiders”. It argues that the young adults find themselves in a state of morbid fear and realize that what for them is the site of joy and peace is a place of horror to the adults.

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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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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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McInally, Kate. "Camphor Laurel: A Re-vision of Desire." Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 13, no. 2 (July 1, 2003): 27–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/pecl2003vol13no2art1289.

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Sarah Walker's 'Camphor Laurel' demonstrates that the text is one of a few Young Adult fictions which destabilise cultural assumptions concerning a normative heterosexuality, as it engages with male-centred discourses that have attempted to reconcile feminine desire with sexual orientation and categorisation. The novel's representation of same-sex desire by young female characters moves beyond the models of maturational development and identity politics, which inform most mainstream fiction.

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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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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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Free, Anna. "The Real Lies: The Simulacrum in Catherine Fisher’s The Oracle." Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 18, no. 2 (December 1, 2008): 54–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/pecl2008vol18no2art1169.

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Fiction written for children and young adults has absorbed postmodern culture in many ways, overtly in some picture books, and more covertly in other young adult fiction. One aspect of postmodernism is concerned with what is real, what is more real, and what constitutes the simulacrum. the simulacrum concerns the surface of things, the ability to copy, and (in a postmodern sense) the ability of the original to disappear. examples of this in young adult cultures exist in abundance, and yet even though the text chosen for this paper is set in an imagined world it illuminates the confrontation between the real and the unreal for the postmodern young adult subject. Drawing on Jean Baudrillard (1994) and Jacques Derrida (1974), I investigate the simulacra and the surfaces that represent belief and social order in Catherine Fisher’s The Oracle (2003), where Mirany provides a sceptical subject position for young adult readers. I argue that peeling back the layers of representation, looking under the surface, reveals only more surface and more representation, making ‘surface’ (or ‘outer face’) a tautology. the ‘realness’ of the surface is deceptive. What can be seen with the eye, or touched with the hand is no longer trustworthy.

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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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Priyadarshini, Arya, and Suman Sigroha. "The ‘Gentle Recitation’: Writing Trauma in Contemporary Children's and Young Adult Literature." International Research in Children's Literature 17, no. 2 (June 2024): 115–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2024.0558.

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Trauma signifies the collapse of personal, social, and cultural meaning systems that causes a rupture to the bond that unifies the individual and the society. While narration of such devastation has been deemed impossible, and its presence in children's and young adult (YA) literature has been debated at great length, writers have attempted, nevertheless, to narrate the ‘unspeakable’ and ‘unrepresentable’ through memoirs and fiction for adults as well as children. Through the study of a select list of titles for children and young adults on the contemporary suffering and displaced populations of Syria and Palestine, this article aims to study the narration of trauma for young readers. It evinces the narrative strategies employed by authors to strike a balance between the two extremes of suffering and optimism. In doing so, it establishes that YA fiction authors construct a niche narrative that offers the realism of trauma through a safe distance.

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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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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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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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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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Mihály, Vilma-Irén. "Trends in Young Adult Literature. A Glance at American and British Fantasy with an Eye on the Transylvanian Variant." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 14, no. 1 (December 1, 2022): 58–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2022-0005.

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Abstract The present paper looks at the main contemporary trends in writing literature for young adult readers The theoretical part focuses on possible definitions and characteristics of young adult literature by distinguishing it from children’s literature and adult fiction, as well as by establishing the different age groups these novels are written for The practical part of the paper gives examples of different types of novels written for this particular audience, such as J K Rowling’s prominent Harry Potter series, but also Lois Lowry’s The Giver or Meg Cabot’s Abandon trilogy At the end, the study also presents a Transylvanian author who has recently started writing fantasy for young adults, namely Balázs Zágoni, and his Black Light series

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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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Seelinger Trites, Roberta. "Review Article: New Definitions of the Female Adolescent Hero in YA Speculative Fiction." International Journal of Young Adult Literature 5, no. 1 (December 16, 2024): 1–9. https://doi.org/10.24877/ijyal.181.

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In lieu of an abstract:In 2023, we saw the publication of three new and important contributions to the feminist study of YA speculative fiction: Melanie A. Marotta’s African American Adolescent Female Heroes: The Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative (University Press of Mississippi); Leah Phillips’ Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction: Reframing Myths of Adolescent Girlhood (Bloomsbury), and Cristina Santos’ Untaming Girlhood: Storytelling Female Adolescence (Routledge). Each of these works expands the theoretical reach of feminism in innovative and provocative directions.

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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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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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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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Soman, S., J. Parameshwaran, and J. KP. "Films and fiction leading to onset of psycho-phenomenology: Case reports from a tertiary mental health center, India." European Psychiatry 41, S1 (April 2017): S747. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.01.1385.

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Mind is influenced by socio-cultural religious belief systems, experiences and attributions in the development of psychophenomenology. Film viewing is a common entertainment among young adults.ObjectivesInfluence of repetitive watching of films of fiction and horror genres on onset phenomenology in young adults.MethodTwo case reports on onset of psychotic features and mixed anxiety depressive phenomenology were seen in two patients aged 16 and 20 years respectively and based on the fantastic imagination created by films. The 28-year-old female patient diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder had onset at 16 years of age and the course of phenomenology was influenced by the fiction movie ‘Jumanji’ with partial response to medications over 10 years. The depressive and anxiety symptoms of less than 6 months duration of a 20-year-old male patient was influenced by film ‘Hannibal’ and responded to antidepressant and cognitive behavior therapy.ConclusionsHorror and fiction films can influence the thinking patterns and attribution styles of a young adult by stimulating fantasy thinking which if unrestrained can lead to phenomenology. Viewing films compulsively, obsessive ruminations on horror and fictional themes can lead to onset of psychopathology of both psychosis and neurotic spectrum. Further research on neurobiological, psychological correlates is needed. Parental guidance and restricted viewing of horror genre films with avoidance of repeated stimulatory viewing of same genre movies in children, adolescents, young adults and vulnerable individuals is required.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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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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Guanio-Uluru, Lykke. "Seeds of latent hope: The figurative entwinement of children, adolescents, and plants in Maja Lunde’s "The Dream of a Tree"." Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 15, no. 1 (April 26, 2024): 73–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2024.15.1.5198.

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Drawing on theorizations of climate fiction, previous studies of plants in climate fiction (cli-fi) for young adults, perspectives from critical plant studies, and discussions on the symbolism of seeds and trees, this study traces metaphorical relationships between plants and the child- and adolescent characters in Maja Lunde’s latest climate fiction, The Dream of a Tree (Drømmen om et tre, 2022). The novel is the last volume in Lunde’s “climate quartet”, where she, for the first time in her series, employs a young adult protagonist. The plot revolves around a group of children, stranded on the archipelago of Svalbard that hosts the Global Seed Vault. The study aims to show how the child and adolescent characters in Lunde’s climate fiction are embedded in metaphorical patterns associating them with growth and hope in ways that serve to move Lunde’s climate quartet from a dystopian towards a more utopian resolution.

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Hanssen, Jessica Allen. "READING NOVELS IN THE RENEWED MIDDLE GRADES ENGLISH CLASSROOM:." Nordic Journal of Modern Language Methodology 8, no. 1 (July 6, 2020): 91–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.46364/njmlm.v8i1.779.

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