Section 3: Revealing boundaries. Eliminating extermination, fostering existence: diverse dystopian fiction and female adolescent identity / Sarah E. Whitney. Section1: Defining boundaries. Exploring the genre conventions of the YA dystopian trilogy as twenty-first century utopian dreaming / Rebekah Fitzsimmons ; Oversharing on and off the internet: crossing from digital to print (and back) in young adult works authored by YouTube stars / Rachel L. Rickard Rebellino ; Paranormal maturation: uncanny teenagers and canny killers / Rachel Dean-Ruzicka ; Fathoms below: an in-depth examination of the mermaid in young adult literature, 2010-2015 / Amber Gray ; Who are these books really for? Police-violence YA, black youth activism, and the implied white audience / Kaylee Jangula Mootz -- Section 2: Expanding boundaries. New directions for old roads: rewriting the young adult road trip story / Jason Vanfosson ; New heroines in old skins: fairy tale revisions in young adult dystopian literature / Jill Coste ; Manufacturing manhood: young adult fiction and masculinity(ies) in the twenty-first century / Tom Jesse and Heidi Jones ; Mythopoeic YA: worlds of possibility / Leah Phillips -- Section 3: Revealing boundaries. "Tell me who I am": an investigation of cultural authenticiy in YA disability peritexts / Megan Brown ; Reimagining Forever...: the marriage plot in recent young adult literatuer / Sara K. Day ; "No accident, no mistake": acquiantance rape in recent YA novels / Roxanne Harde ; Eliminating extermination, fostering existence: diverse dystopian fiction and female adolescent identity / Sarah E. Whitney.
Summary:
"While critical and popular attention afforded to twenty-first-century young adult literature has exponentially increased in recent years, classroom materials and scholarship have remained static in focus and slight in scope. Twilight, The Hunger Games, The Fault in Our Stars, and The Hate U Give overwhelm conversations among scholars and critics-but these are far from the only texts in need of analysis. Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction offers a necessary remedy to this limiting perspective, bringing together essays about the many subgenres, themes, and character types that have until now been overlooked. The collection tackles a diverse range of topics-modern updates to the marriage plot; fairy tale retellings in dystopian settings; stories of extrajudicial police killings and racial justice. The approaches are united, though, by a commitment to exploring the large-scale generic and theoretical structures at work in each set of texts. As a collection, Beyond the Blockbusters is an exciting entryway into a field that continues to grow and change even as its works captivate massive audiences. It will prove a crucial addition to the library of any scholar or instructor of young adult literature"-- Provided by publisher. "A necessary expansion of the lens and landscape of young adult literature"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.