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Check here for updates throughout the semester.
Update #1: Class is cancelled Tuesday,
Feb. 13th.
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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.
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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.
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Additional Readings:
The theoretical readings will be available on-line. I will link to
them from the calendar. |
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