Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction

• Main Author: Gruner, Elisabeth Rose (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Fiction.; Literature-Philosophy.; Popular Culture.; Contemporary Literature.; Literary Theory.; Popular Culture .

This book examines the way young adult readers are constructed in a variety of contemporary young adult fictions, arguing that contemporary young adult novels depict readers as agents. Reading, these novels suggest, is neither an unalloyed good nor a dangerous ploy, but rather an essential, occasion...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Young Adults, Reading, and Young Adult Reading
• 2. Reading in School
• 3. Misreading the Classics: Gender, Genre, and Agency in YA Romance
• 4. "Dreaming Themselves into Existence": Reading and Race
• 5. Magic, Prophetic, and Sacred Books: Making Communities of Readers
• 6. Reading, Resistance, and Political Agency
• 7. Epilogue: Reading Reading in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.