Teens and the New Religious Landscape
Essays on Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
Published on 12. September 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
242 pages
978-1-4766-6807-9 (ISBN)
Description
How are teenagers' religious experiences shown in today's young adult literature? How do authors use religious texts and beliefs to add depth to characters, settings and plots? How does YA fiction place itself in the larger conversation regarding religion?
Modern YA fiction does not shy away from the dilemmas and anxieties teenagers face today. While many stories end with the protagonist in a state of flux if not despair, some authors choose redemption or reconciliation.
This collection of new essays explores these issues and more, with a focus on stories in which characters respond to a new (often shifting) religious landscape, in both realistic and fantastic worlds.
Modern YA fiction does not shy away from the dilemmas and anxieties teenagers face today. While many stories end with the protagonist in a state of flux if not despair, some authors choose redemption or reconciliation.
This collection of new essays explores these issues and more, with a focus on stories in which characters respond to a new (often shifting) religious landscape, in both realistic and fantastic worlds.
Reviews / Votes
"Valuable"-Children's Literature Association Quarterly.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Jefferson, NC
United States
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
notes, bibliographies, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
402 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4766-6807-9 (9781476668079)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Jacob Stratman is an associate professor of English and chair of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division at John Brown University. He has published articles in SIGNAL, English Journal, Christianity and Literature and Literature and Belief and lives in Siloam Springs, Arkansas.
Content
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Young Adult Literature and the Postsecular Novel (Jacob Stratman)
Postsecular Young Adult Literature: or, Harry Potter and the New Religious Landscape (Paul T. Corrigan)
Fantasy as Realism: N.D. Wilson and the Influence
Mythology (Jeremy Larson)
A Ninja, a Nun and a Knight: Christianity and Narrative Mischief in Brian Meehl's You Don't Know About Me, Suck It Up and Suck It Up and Die (Carrie Myers)
The Book Worlds of Nikki Grimes: An Invitation to Dialogic
Reading (Susan Leigh Brooks)
Young Adult Fiction, Diaspora and the "Muslim" Question:
A Study on Faith and Feminism in Randa -Abdel-Fattah's
Novels (Fatema Johera Ahmed)
The Customized Religion: Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, American Teenagers and Pete Hautman's Godless (Jacob Stratman)
Learning How to Be Jewish in The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah and Confessions of a Closet Catholic (Patricia F. D'Ascoli)
"Stick up for these crazy stupid things": Emily Horner's Queer Quaker Road Trip Novel (Katelyn R. Browne)
Performing God: Kiran and Krishna in Rakesh Satyal's
Blue Boy (Rizia Begum Laskar)
The Way of the Fantasist: Ethical Complexities in the Taoist Mythopoeic Fantasy of Ursula Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea (David S. Hogsette)
The Language of Magic and Prayer: Intercession in the
Works of Merrie Haskell (Erin Wyble Newcomb)
Postsecular Cosplay, Fundamentalism and Martyrdom
in Gene Luen Yang's Boxers & Saints (Carissa Turner Smith)
Sight, Blindness and Identity in Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese and Boxers & Saints (-Shih-Wen Sue Chen)
About the Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Young Adult Literature and the Postsecular Novel (Jacob Stratman)
Postsecular Young Adult Literature: or, Harry Potter and the New Religious Landscape (Paul T. Corrigan)
Fantasy as Realism: N.D. Wilson and the Influence
Mythology (Jeremy Larson)
A Ninja, a Nun and a Knight: Christianity and Narrative Mischief in Brian Meehl's You Don't Know About Me, Suck It Up and Suck It Up and Die (Carrie Myers)
The Book Worlds of Nikki Grimes: An Invitation to Dialogic
Reading (Susan Leigh Brooks)
Young Adult Fiction, Diaspora and the "Muslim" Question:
A Study on Faith and Feminism in Randa -Abdel-Fattah's
Novels (Fatema Johera Ahmed)
The Customized Religion: Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, American Teenagers and Pete Hautman's Godless (Jacob Stratman)
Learning How to Be Jewish in The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah and Confessions of a Closet Catholic (Patricia F. D'Ascoli)
"Stick up for these crazy stupid things": Emily Horner's Queer Quaker Road Trip Novel (Katelyn R. Browne)
Performing God: Kiran and Krishna in Rakesh Satyal's
Blue Boy (Rizia Begum Laskar)
The Way of the Fantasist: Ethical Complexities in the Taoist Mythopoeic Fantasy of Ursula Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea (David S. Hogsette)
The Language of Magic and Prayer: Intercession in the
Works of Merrie Haskell (Erin Wyble Newcomb)
Postsecular Cosplay, Fundamentalism and Martyrdom
in Gene Luen Yang's Boxers & Saints (Carissa Turner Smith)
Sight, Blindness and Identity in Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese and Boxers & Saints (-Shih-Wen Sue Chen)
About the Contributors
Index