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Literature for Young Adults
Spring 2007

T, H, 12:35-1:50
 Stevenson Hall 221A
Dr. Karen Coats

 
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Update #1: Class is cancelled Tuesday, Feb. 13th.

 

Course Description:

In this course we will analyze texts that explore dominant themes in adolescent literature, particularly as they relate to issues of  identity construction, gender issues, sexuality, embodiment, abjection, and ethics. Our question for each text will be: How is the world presented to young people through this text? In our answers to that question, we will consider the form of the text, its content and subtexts, and the context in which i was written.

Required Texts:
Anderson, Laurie Halse: Speak

Anderson, M. T.:
Feed, Thirsty
Flake, Sharon, Who am I Without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in their Lives

Klause, Annette Curtis: Blood and Chocolate
Meyer, Stephanie,
Twilight
Myers, Walter Dean, Monster
Portman, Frank,
King Dork

Salinger, J. D.: Catcher in the Rye

Westerfeld, Scott:
So Yesterday, Peeps
Winick, Judd,
Pedro and Me
 
*Bend it Like Beckham
*Smoke Signals
 

*These are films that the instructor will provide for in-class viewing.

Additional Readings:

       The theoretical readings will be available on-line. I will link to them from the calendar.