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Teaching Young Adult Literature

Teaching Young Adult Literature

Savage, Jordan

Hardcover

Series: Teaching the New English

Literary CriticismWriting Instruction

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 31, 2027

ISBN10: 3032269830
ISBN13: 9783032269836
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 31 2027
Pages: 212
Language: English

This volume explores how Young Adult (YA) literature is taught in university-level courses. Both an emergent field of academic study and a popular phenomenon, YA fiction increasingly reaches beyond its target demographic. The chapters examine the contemporary socio-political trends with which YA fiction engages. Questions of representation and own voice storytelling are key aspects, as are issues of climate change, extinction and climate anxiety. This book considers the literary history of YA writing, drawing on Children's Literature, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction, and shows how YA literature is taught across these sub-fields. It also shows how the teaching of YA fiction spans Creative Writing programmes in the UK, as integrated parts of modules with thematic topics such as climate emergency or social justice in the US, and within Education programmes globally. The book provides a reflective framework for integrating YA literature into teaching, highlighting the opportunities presented by YA literature for widening participation in higher education and as a pedagogic tool for strengthening minority own-voice representation.

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