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The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction

The Literary Agenda

By: Deborah Lindsay Williams

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The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction

The Literary Agenda

By: Deborah Lindsay Williams

Discusses how young adult fiction offers new ways of thinking about climate change and definitions of citizenship. The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction argues that YA fiction helps us to think about some of most pressing problems of the twenty-first century by offering imaginative reconceptualizations about identity, nation, family, and the human relationship to the planet. Using examples from YA fiction that range from the Harry Potter series to Nnedi Okorafor's trilogy set in contemporary Nigeria, this book argues that the cultural work of YA fiction shapes readers perceptions, making them receptive to--and invested in--the possibility of positive social change. The novels examined could all be considered "fantastical," but they offer insights into the real world that all readers--and particularly young adult readers--might draw on in order to reimagine social structures and the well-being of the planet. The book is designed to bring readers into the conversation about how we might create cosmopolitan societies that are shaped around conversation and engagement rather than fear and isolation. Each of these novels, in different ways, illustrate the dangers inherent in fundamentalist visions of the world. Through its discussions about the relationships between reading and citizenship, monsters and families, the local and the global, The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction demonstrates that YA fiction is doing some of the most important and creative work in literature today.

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Oxford University Press

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0192848976

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The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction

The Literary Agenda

By: Deborah Lindsay Williams

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The Literary Agenda

By: Deborah Lindsay Williams

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NTC's Dictionary of Easily Confused Words

By: Deborah Williams

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NTC's Dictionary of Easily Confused Words

By: Deborah Williams

An easy-to-use guide that will help the user understand confusing words and their usage and to then choose the correct spelling or meaning of a word for any given situation.

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212

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Contemporary Books

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0844257877

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9780844257877

NTC's Dictionary of Tricky Words

With Complete Examples of Correct Usage

By: Deborah K. Williams

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NTC's Dictionary of Tricky Words

With Complete Examples of Correct Usage

By: Deborah K. Williams

This book will help you master confusing words and their usage. This easy-to-use reference focuses on three major classes of complicated words: Words that are pronounced alike but are different in spelling, meaning or both, such as sail and sale; gilt guilt.

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208

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NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company

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0844257648

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9780844257648

Not in Sisterhood

Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Zona Gale, and the Politics of Female Authorship

By: D. Williams

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Not in Sisterhood

Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Zona Gale, and the Politics of Female Authorship

By: D. Williams

Not In Sisterhood investigates an important transitional moment in the history of U.S. women's writing : the uneasy shift from the 19th-century model of the "lady author" to some new but undefined alternative. The careers of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather, together with that of their friend and peer Zona Gale, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama, reveal several different strategies for negotiating this unknown terrain. While Gale made her feminist politics an integral part of her successful novels and plays, Wharton and Cather publicly denied any interest in gender issues or social reforms. Not in Sisterhood shows how the complex intersections of literary and social politics that shaped the world of Wharton, Cather, and Gale are still at work in today's feminist reconstructions of literary history.

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225

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Palgrave Macmillan

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0312229216

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9780312229214

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The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction

The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction

The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction

The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction

NTC's Dictionary of Easily Confused Words

NTC's Dictionary of Easily Confused Words

NTC's Dictionary of Tricky Words

NTC's Dictionary of Tricky Words

Not in Sisterhood

Not in Sisterhood

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