Description
Book SynopsisIn the last decade alone, the world has changed in seismic ways as marriage equality has been ruled on by the supreme court, social justice issues such as #metoo and BlackLivesMatter have arisen, and issues of immigration and deportation have come to the forefront of politics across the globe. Thus, there is a need for an updated text that shares strategies for combining canonical and young adult literature that reflects the changes society has and continues to - experience. The purpose of our collection is to offer secondary (6-12) teachers engaging ideas and approaches for pairing young adult and canonical novels to provide unique examinations of topics that teaching either text in isolation could not afford. Our collection does not center canonical texts and most chapters show how both texts complement each other rather than the young adult text being only an extension of the canonical. Within each volume, the chapters are organized chronologically according to the publication d
Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
Victor Malo-Juvera and Paula Greathouse
CHAPTER 1
A Poet, a Girl, and Her Golem: The Journey from Innocence to Experience
Dawan Coombs and Rachel Knecht
CHAPTER 2
Remixing Pride and Prejudice for Gentrification Study and Writing Dialogue
Kristine Mensonides Gritter
CHAPTER 3
Monsters, Cyborgs, and Medical Ethics: Cinder and Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Melanie Hundley and Sarah K. Burriss
CHAPTER 4
Young Adult Literature as Companion to Sex, Gender, and Consent in the Canon: Pairing Gabi,
a Girl in Pieces and The Scarlet Letter
Ruben Zecena and Ashley S. Boyd
CHAPTER 5
Beginnings, Transformations, and Connections: Teaching Gansworth’s Apple alongside Kafka’s
Metamorphosis
Ricki Ginsberg and Kit Magee
CHAPTER 6
Examining Prejudice and Intersectionality in Of Mice and Men and We Were Here
Ellen Foley
CHAPTER 7
Disrupting the Canon with Dystopia: Neal Shusterman’s Scythe and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit
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Sarah Flemming and Keith Newvine
CHAPTER 8
Saints, Angels, Butterflies, and Owls: Magical Realism Beckons
Sharon Kane
CHAPTER 9
Trauma in the Beauty Ideal in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and An Na’s The Fold
Sarah Donovan
ABOUT THE EDITORS
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX OF CANONICAL AND YA TEXTS
SUBJECT INDEX
