Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture: A Mosaic of Criticism
- ISBN-10
- 1443894427
- ISBN-13
- 9781443894425
- Category
- Children's literature
- Pages
- 285
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016
- Author
- Amie A. Doughty
Description
"This collection of essays explores a wealth of topics in children's and young adult literature and culture. Contributions about picture-books include analyses of variants of the folktale "The Little Red Hen" and bullying. Race and gender are explored in essays about picture-books featuring children as consumable objects, about books focused on African American female athletes, and about young adult dystopian fiction. Gender itself is further explored in articles about Monster High, Joyce Carol Oates's Beasts, and The Hunger Games and Divergent.Essays about fantasy literature include an exploration of environmentalism in Rick Riordan's The Heroes of Olympus, a discussion of Severus Snape as a Judas figure, an explication of Chapter 5 of The Hobbit, and an analysis of ghosts and nationalism in Eva Ibbotson's The Haunting of Granite Falls. An essay about Horrible Histories explores television, genre, and the way history is coded. Other contributions explore how teaching literature to reluctant readers can be effective through multimodal texts and how Harry Potter has played a role in the popularity of young adult literature for adult readers."
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