Cancer and Young Adult Literature

This collection critically presents arguments studying cancer as it is portrayed in Young Adult literature. The essays included offer insights into cancer and families, cancer and relationships, cancer and story-telling, and more.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Monster Theory and Parental Loss in A Monster Calls
Sarah Minslow
Chapter 2: The Wilting Branch: The Effects of Cancer on the Family Unit
Abigail Bailey
Chapter 3: A Matter of Perspectives: How Pediatric Patients and Parents Cope with Cancer and Death in Ways to Live Forever and Before I Die
Alessia Silvestrin
Chapter 4: Last Things: Sick Protagonists' Bucket Lists
Jennifer Marchant
Chapter 5: Grounded in Fantasy or Reality: Comparing real-life accounts of adolescent cancer with fictional themes of experience in popular YA texts.
Katie Doering
Chapter 6: "Oddest and Most Hopeless:" Leukemia, the YA Cancer Narrative, and Writing for Young Adults
Stephen M. Zimmerly
Chapter 7: Teenage Hospital Romance among the Cancerously Ill in Cellular and Too Young to Die
Arka De Barman
Chapter 8: EcoGothic and Bodily Decay in the Film Adaptations of A Walk to Remember (2002), Now is Good (2012), The Fault in Our Stars (2014), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), and Clouds (2020)
Jesse Bair

About the author

Edited by Stephen M. Zimmerly - Contributions by Sarah Minslow; Abigail Bailey; Alessia Silvestrin; Jennifer Marchant; Katie Doering; Stephen M. Zimmerly; Arka De Barman and Jesse Bair

Product details

• Authors: Stephen M Zimmerly, Stephen M. Zimmerly
• Assisted by: Stephen M Zimmerly (Editor), Stephen M. Zimmerly (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2024
• EAN: 9781666927566
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-756-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, United States of America, USA, Children's & teenage literature studies, Literary studies: from c 2000, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general