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Informationen zum Autor By Loretta M. Gaffney Klappentext Young Adult Literature, Libraries, and Conservative Activism analyzes young adult (YA) literature as a cultural phenomenon, explaining why this explosion of books written for and marketed to teen readers has important consequences for proponents of teen literacy. It explains how YA literature has become a lightning rod for a variety of aesthetic, pedagogical, and popular literature controversies and illustrates why teachers and librarians have a stake in promoting and defending it. Noted scholar Loretta Gaffney not only examines how YA literature is defended and critiqued within the context of rapid cultural and technological changes, but also highlights how struggles about teen reading matter to-and matter in-the future of librarianship and education. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter One: How to Read a Young Adult Novel: An IntroductionWhat Is Young Adult Literature?Golden Age or Dark Age? Histories of Young Adult LiteratureEarly and Foundational Young Adult NovelsYA Goes to School: Young Adult Literature in the AcademyThe Politics of Reading: How to Read YA (And This Book)Chapter Two: Constructing the Teenaged Reader"These Kids Today": Myths and Stereotypes about Contemporary TeenagersReading in TheoryReading in Decline or Reading on the Rise?Print and Digital LiteraciesThe Politics of Research: Teens and Reading in the Cultural CrossfireChapter Three: Tending the Fair Garden: Canon Formation and Aesthetic Approaches to Young Adult LiteratureYouth Services Librarianship and Literary AestheticsDefending the Canon: Realism v. FantasyThe Rise of YA Librarianship: Defending Teens' Freedom to ReadChapter Four: Bibliotherapy and the Problem Novel: Pedagogical Approaches to YA LiteratureThe Rise of the New RealismThe Problem with Problem Novels"Darkness Too Visible"Triggering the RealConclusionChapter Five: The Uses of Pleasure: Popular Literature and Young AdultsPleasure and Reading MotivationLibraries and Popular LiteraturePopular Literature, Dangerous ReadingYA as Pop LiteratureIntellectual Freedom and Reading ResearchChapter Six: "No Longer Safe": Young Adult Literature and Conservative Library ActivismThe Rise of the Pro Family Movement and Conservative Library ActivismSexual Conservatives, Pornography, and InformationThe Trouble with HarryLessons From West BendChapter Seven: Do We Dare Disturb the Universe? Young Adult Literature and Social Change: A ConclusionTeen Readers UniteThe Politics of ReadingYA Literature and Social ChangeBibliography...
