Cultural Identity, Class and Conflict in Young Adult Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 144 (a) - Option 21

Unit I 

 The Genre of Young Adult (YA) Fiction/ Literature:

· Young Adult Literature in the 21st Century: Moving Beyond Traditional Constraints and Conventions *

· Young-Adult Literature: A Writer Strikes the Genre #

Unit II 

 Narrative Experimentation in the Coming-of-Age Novel

· Young Adult Realism: Conventions, Narrators and Readers @

· Multicultural Young Adult Literature as a Form of Counter Storytelling %

Unit III

Candice Montgomery’s Home and Away (2018)

Unit IV

Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X (2018) 

Unit V

 Ibi Zoboi's Pride (2018)

Source Books: 

Essential Reading:

*  by Jeffrey S. Kaplan in The Alan Review, Winter 2015, pp. 11-18. 

#  by Steven VanderStaay in The English Journal, Vol. 81, No. 4 (April 1992), pp. 48-52.

@ by Catherine Sheldrick Ross in The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy, Vol. 55, No. 2 (1985), pp. 174–91. 

% by Sandra Hughes-Hassell in The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy, Vol. 82, No. 3 (July 2013), pp. 212-28. 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Reading:

Brooks, Wanda, et al. “Narrative Significations of Contemporary Black Girlhood.” Research in the Teaching of English, vol. 45, no. 1, 2010, pp. 7–35. 

Day, Sara K., Miranda A. GreenBarteet, and Amy L. Montz(ed.) Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction. Ashgate, 2014.

Hilton, Mary and Maria Nikolajeva (ed.) Contemporary Adolescent Literature and Culture : The Emergent Adult. Routledge, 2016.

Hintz, Carrie, et al., (ed.) Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers. Routledge, 2013.

James, Kathryn. Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature, Routledge, 2008.

McCallum, Robyn. Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction :The Dialogic Construction of Subjectivity. Routledge, 1999.

Stephens, John and John A. Stephens (ed.) Ways of Being Male :Representing Masculinities in Children's Literature. Routledge, 2002.

Thein, Amanda Haertling, and Mark A. Sulzer. “Illuminating Discourses of Youth through the Study of First-Person Narration in Young Adult Literature.” The English Journal, vol. 104, no. 3, 2015, pp. 47–53. 

Younger, Beth. “Pleasure, Pain, and the Power of Being Thin: Female Sexuality in Young Adult Literature.” NWSA Journal, vol. 15, no. 2, 2003, pp. 45–56. 

Academic Year: 
2018-2019