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Informationen zum Autor Loretta M. Gaffney has taught courses on intellectual freedom, reading research, young adult literature, and youth services librarianship for nearly a decade. A former middle school librarian at the University of Chicago Lab Schools, she defended her dissertation, "Intellectual Freedom and the Politics of Reading" in 2012. Loretta's current research projects include the politics of young adult literature, Common Core, and school librarians' knowledge. She lives and works in Los Angeles. 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 Introduction What Is Young Adult Literature? Golden Age or Dark Age? Histories of Young Adult Literature Early and Foundational Young Adult Novels YA Goes to School: Young Adult Literature in the Academy The Politics of Reading: How to Read YA (And This Book) Chapter Two: Constructing the Teenaged Reader "These Kids Today": Myths and Stereotypes about Contemporary Teenagers Reading in Theory Reading in Decline or Reading on the Rise? Print and Digital Literacies The Politics of Research: Teens and Reading in the Cultural Crossfire Chapter Three: Tending the Fair Garden: Canon Formation and Aesthetic Approaches to Young Adult Literature Youth Services Librarianship and Literary Aesthetics Defending the Canon: Realism v. Fantasy The Rise of YA Librarianship: Defending Teens' Freedom to Read Chapter Four: Bibliotherapy and the Problem Novel: Pedagogical Approaches to YA Literature The Rise of the New Realism The Problem with Probl ...
