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by Antero Garcia
This thoughtful guide helps educators, librarians, and students think critically about Young Adult literature—exploring how popular books like The Outsiders and Harry Potter shape adolescent culture. Through engaging strategies and classroom-ready activities, author Antero Garcia encourages readers to examine and challenge stereotypes in YA books, discovering how to make literature more inclusive and representative of all young people.
Young Adult literature, from The Outsiders to Harry Potter, has helped shape the cultural landscape for adolescents perhaps more than any other form of consumable media in the twentieth and twenty-first century. With the rise of mega blockbuster films based on these books in recent years, the young adult genre is being co-opted by curious adult readers and by Hollywood producers. However, while the genre may be getting more readers than ever before, Young Adult literature remains exclusionary and problematic: few titles feature historically marginalized individuals, the books present heteronormative perspectives, and gender stereotypes continue to persist. Taking a critical approach, Young Adult Literature: Challenging Genres offers educators, youth librarians, and students a set of strategies for unpacking, challenging, and transforming the assumptions of some of the genre's most popular titles. Pushing the genre forward, Antero Garcia builds on his experiences as a former high school teacher to offer strategies for integrating Young Adult literature in a contemporary critical pedagogy through the use of participatory media.
Sense Publishers
162
9789462093966
2013-10-11
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