Cancer and Young Adult Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

This collection specifically and solely focuses on Young Adult literature texts where cancer plays a prominent role, including widely-read texts like John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, Nicholas Sparks’ A Walk to Remember, and Jesse Andrews’ Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. The chapters present a variety of arguments, each developing a novel investigation into how these stories explore the effects cancer has on a person, a family, or on a relationship. As scientific studies continue to devlop new understandings of the biology behind cancer, and new sociological studies continue to uncover how a cancer diagnosis impacts the fabric of our culture(s), these collected essays continue to investigate how authors have woven cancer into the stories we write for young people. A number of distinct avenues are taken here, arguing for new approaches in crafting narrative, deeper appreciation for family support networks (or their absence), and what literary criticism can uncover when applied to cancer narratives.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-12-20
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:434 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:200
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666927566

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Stephen M. Zimmerly is associate professor of English at the University of Indianapolis.

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Cancer and Young Adult Literature fulfills its promise to provide a range of innovative and thought-provoking perspectives on the portrayal of cancer in YA fiction … The anthology makes a timely and meaningful contribution to diversifying the critical landscape and opening new avenues for future research.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Monster Theory and Parental Loss in A Monster CallsSarah MinslowChapter 2: The Wilting Branch: The Effects of Cancer on the Family UnitAbigail BaileyChapter 3: A Matter of Perspectives: How Pediatric Patients and Parents Cope with Cancer and Death in Ways to Live Forever and Before I DieAlessia SilvestrinChapter 4: Last Things: Sick Protagonists’ Bucket ListsJennifer MarchantChapter 5: Grounded in Fantasy or Reality: Comparing real-life accounts of adolescent cancer with fictional themes of experience in popular YA texts.Katie DoeringChapter 6: “Oddest and Most Hopeless:” Leukemia, the YA Cancer Narrative, and Writing for Young AdultsStephen M. ZimmerlyChapter 7: Teenage Hospital Romance among the Cancerously Ill in Cellular and Too Young to DieArka De BarmanChapter 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