Search

Today, Irish Young Adult (YA) literature examines a wide variety of youth experiences. However, an aspect that it is still slowly beginning to address is Ireland's multiculturalism. While it is possible to find racialised characters or characters who belong to marginalised ethnic minorities in some Irish YA texts, white characters still predominate. Thus, it is significant to highlight the work of those authors who offer a depiction of today's multicultural Ireland and a window into the experiences of characters that are usually found outside the mainstream, as is the case for Adiba Jaigirdar. Her YA novels The Henna Wars (2020) and Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating (2021) depict experiences and challenges that many Muslim girls may encounter in contemporary Ireland. This essay aims to analyse, in particular, how both novels explore matters of sexuality and religion together with race and ethnicity by focusing on how these intersecting elements of identity are negotiated by the characters of Nishat and Hani, two queer Muslim girls. This intersectional analysis will focus on how sexuality and religion working simultaneously both shape, and are influenced by, the girls' experiences in a multicultural yet mainly white and Catholic Ireland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, there has been growing awareness of the importance of representation in fiction books, to ensure all children and young people can see themselves reflected in what they read. Much of this work has focused, importantly, on increasing ethnic representation, yet there has been much less exploration of the representation of other minority experiences, such as those of neurodivergent young people, and how these are perceived by neurodivergent young people themselves. This article provides new insights into neurodivergent young people's perceptions of representation of neurodivergence in fiction books (and other text types) based on semi‐structured interviews with 16 neurodivergent young people (aged 14 to 17 year olds) from 2 high schools in Scotland. Using an inductive data‐driven thematic analysis process, three themes were identified: (1) representation of neurodivergence should be complex, realistic, and positive; (2) representation of neurodivergence should be normalised; (3) representation of neurodivergence beyond books is important. Each of these themes is explored in detail, followed by implications for future research, practice and the publishing of Young Adult fiction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers a close textual analysis of Cindy Pon's speculative young adult (YA) novels, Want and Ruse, focused on the role of technology as both a facilitator of oppression and a tool for resisting it. This article explores the potential of speculative science fiction novels to help readers explore the complex social and material entanglements of digital technologies. The article also discusses the dual pedagogical layers of speculative YA texts as direct contributors to readers' understandings of the world and as educational tools within language arts classrooms. The author argues that, as technology continues to shape and transform society, it is crucial for scholars to examine the way digital tools and literacies are portrayed in speculative texts, particularly those aimed at younger readers, and to encourage students to critically engage with them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Graphic novels and reading lists play an important role in today's libraries. Graphic novels have continued to grow in stature and acceptance across all types of libraries. In 2007, the Young Adult Library Association highlighted their importance with the creation of a new list--Great Graphic Novels for Teens. This list joined the ranks of their other important lists for libraries and readers. Librarians utilize lists as collection development and reader's advisory tools. How are graphic novels being included in two of YALSA's important lists--Best Fiction for Young Adults and Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers? Is that inclusion different post-creation of the Great Graphics Novels for Teens list? This study looked at the inclusion, exclusion, and over-lap of graphic novels on these three lists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractNo single story can represent fully and comprehensively a complex historical movement such as the Civil Rights fight for freedom and social justice. Learning about this movement through multi-perspective biographical young adult graphic novels cultivates in students a nuanced understanding of this historical struggle, making it more concrete and relatable for student readers. In this article, we describe how teachers can use graphic novels from diverse perspectives for teaching the Civil Rights Movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores how educators can use speculative young adult (YA) fiction to critique oppressive systems and envision more just futures. Topics include the role of speculative fiction as a tool for activism and critical futures thinking, the concept of abolitionist teaching and its connection to speculative fiction, and the use of fiction to engage students in "freedom dreaming" and climate change activism.

No research has yet experimentally evaluated the role of narrative fiction in relation to eating disorders (EDs). This study used a between-participants design to assess vulnerability to EDs before and after reading two contemporary U.S. young adult sports novels. ED vulnerability was measured using the EAT-26 and a tailored questionnaire. The experimental group (n = 32) received the books with text-specific reading guides. The control group (n = 33) received only the novels. Our hypothesis was that post-reading measures would be lower (improved) in both groups, but more markedly in the experimental group. Scores were typically lower in the experimental group and higher in the control group, but these differences were not statistically significant after correction for multiple comparisons. These findings underline the need to expand empirical evidence on the effects of narrative reading in the context of EDs, while the innovative methods trialed here open up new methodological avenues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Trauma signifies the collapse of personal, social, and cultural meaning systems that causes a rupture to the bond that unifies the individual and the society. While narration of such devastation has been deemed impossible, and its presence in children's and young adult (YA) literature has been debated at great length, writers have attempted, nevertheless, to narrate the 'unspeakable' and 'unrepresentable' through memoirs and fiction for adults as well as children. Through the study of a select list of titles for children and young adults on the contemporary suffering and displaced populations of Syria and Palestine, this article aims to study the narration of trauma for young readers. It evinces the narrative strategies employed by authors to strike a balance between the two extremes of suffering and optimism. In doing so, it establishes that YA fiction authors construct a niche narrative that offers the realism of trauma through a safe distance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on feminist and critical theories of politics and emotions, this paper attends to the hegemony of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) for multiply-marginalized students and explores what exemplary Young Adult (YA) novels can teach scholars, educators, and students about the productive use of anger in the face of injustice. Two acclaimed young adult novels are examined using Critical Content Analysis to illustrate the potential for using such books to critically discuss what anger does in the face of injustice related to race and gender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article comments on a novel by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne entitled Aisling nó Iníon A published in 2015. It focuses on the referendum for the Repeal of the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution. The article refers to a number of instances which led to popular demand for a Repeal of the Eighth, showing how Ní Dhuibhne's novel captures the atmosphere in Ireland prior to the referendum. The principal character in the novel is fifteen-year-old Aisling, whose name is a fitting one relating to Ireland, her literature and her history. The novel is situated in Dublin where Eibhlín, Aisling's mother, is a well-off journalist and her father is frequently away from home due to his occupation. Aisling's mother is against the repeal of the amendment and brings her daughter, who supports the amendment, to demonstrations that support Eibhlín's stance. Aisling's friend Sara has gone to London for an abortion and Ní Dhuibhne spares no details regarding the procedure and its effects underlining the word-of-mouth aspect to the dissemination of such information. The narration draws a comparison between the wolf in the tale of Little Red Riding Hood and the father of Aisling's foetus. The novel dispels some of the secrecy associated with topics that were, and often still are, 'taboo' as Ní Dhuibhne weaves the information into her novel. This serves to remind the reader why a majority voted in favour of the Eighth Amendment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A flourishing market in literary-scented candles offers olfactory bookish experiences has received little attention from scholars. Whilst the literature on bookishness has not considered candles, they provide a useful perspective from which to consider our relationship to books. Bookish candles transcend the purely olfactory, as their use is often in photographs alongside books, as part of bookish social media culture. I consider how bookish candles, scented and otherwise, through four dynamics: attentiveness to the materiality of books, direct evocation of literary aspects with textual support, expansion beyond the text, and more creative and abstract responses. I draw on notions of affective bibliography, as well as ideas of diegetic and non-diegetic sound from film studies, and argue for a wider bibliography drawing on transmedia approaches to understand this aspect of print culture. I explore the YA phenomenon of Heartstopper through a consideration of candles inspired by Heartstopper sold on Etsy, and made and shared by users on TikTok as examples of bibliographic practices and bibliographical, which not only tell us about what books mean to their owners, but also add an olfactory dimension to our understanding of bookish objects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many authors in recent years have worked to encourage the inclusion of disabled people and to show disability characters in a positive light. In order to accomplish this, they tend to produce counterdisability characters and scenarios to promote enablement. This textual analysis focuses on three young adult fictions that provide positive portrayals of protagonists with disability, including Out of My Mind (Draper, 2010), Five Flavors of Dumb (John, 2010) and Jerk, California (Friesen, 2008). Drawing on the social identity theory and the social model, this paper explores how the protagonists' disability identities are formed. Three themes emerged from the textual analysis: impairment and identity, which looked at the complex interactions between impairment and identity; community transformation, which analyzed factors causing both socially constructed disability and positive interaction; and positive disability identity, which examined how protagonists navigate challenges and form positive identity. This study may offer recommendations for educators, parents, and researchers who might utilize this study to advance and build an inclusive society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to critically assess the projection of 'Indigenous Futurism' by examining the select Australian young adult novels using Jaques Lacan's Anamorphosis from a postcolonial perspective. Ambelin Kwaymullina's speculative fiction The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf (2012) projects a futuristic Australia where the tribal people are seeking independence from a colonial authority. Similarly, the plot of Marianne de Pierres' Nylon Angel (2004) revolves around the issues of the marginalized people in Australia in a technodystopian world. The objective of this article is to critically examine these two speculative novels using Lacan's anamorphosis concept to correlate how these authors have connected the contemporary issues in Australia and also how they have speculated the issues of the Aboriginal people in Australia in the future. Additionally, this article also aims to highlight how they have projected the 'Indigenous Futurism' from an Aboriginal man's perspective using anamorphosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Following Giovanna Di Chiro's argument for a 'coalitional' approach to social reproduction as environmental issue, this article examines representations of magic and witchcraft in Yaba Badoe's young adult novel Wolf Light as registering the impact of neoliberal 'extractivist heteropatriarchal capitalism'. Accusations of witchcraft were, and still are, associated with grabs for resources, wealth and class positions occupied by women. To this we could add the notion of the environment as a further realm under threat by increasingly toxic strategies of extraction and disposal. This article extends these conceptual frameworks to consider how Yaba Badoe's speculative text, set in Ghana, Cornwall and Mongolia, depicts feminised magic and transformative supernatural powers as ways of combatting global extractivism. Significantly, ecological destruction has yet to be adequately theorised in relation to social reproduction theory. So too its cultural registration in fictions from peripheral areas long associated with extraction. Through focusing on Wolf Light, this article will theorise how the book's formal mode, alongside its figuration of witches as eco-utopian earth defenders and transformative shape-shifters, offers forms of cultural resistance. Critically, the novel builds consciously on global histories of women's oppression – including the resurgence of witchcraft accusations in Ghana, as discussed in Badoe's research for her film The Witches of Gambaga, and early modern British witch hunts. These narratives are reinvested with a focus on local struggle and resistance as imagined through the text's three main protagonists, whose shape-shifting abilities and trans-border magical connections provide a way of protesting neoliberalism's compound crises of reproduction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the translation of Manner-of-motion in a Swedish>Spanish parallel corpus of crime novels by Henning Mankell (and more specifically, a selection of the Wallander series). Since Swedish is a satellite-framed language, while Spanish is a verb-framed language, the aim of the research is to identify translation techniques adapted to the issue of translating Manner-of-motion in an intertypological translation scenario. The results of this study are compared with previous research on the topic, which has focused mainly on general prose fiction and fiction for children and young adults. Our findings confirm that Manner-of-motion is omitted to a great extent in the Spanish translations, compared with the original texts in Swedish. Moreover, some differences are encountered in the translation of original fragments, including general and specific Manner-of-motion verbs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Teaching the components of health advocacy is straightforward, but fostering young people's self-efficacy to be health advocates for themselves, others, and their community is more complex. This complexity sometimes renders advocating for health, the basis of National Health Education Standard (NHES) #8, challenging to teach. We utilized a pedagogical approach called biblioguidance to teach this skill to 10th-grade students. The premise of biblioguidance, also called bibliotherapy, is that information, guidance, and even solace can be found through reading and vicariously living story events. To implement this approach, we consulted the literature and created a six-step framework to guide the design, development, and evaluation of a health advocacy curriculum, including young adult novels, guided reading prompts, electronic journals, and small group discussions. Our pre/post-assessment, rooted in NHES #8, evaluated the impact on students' (N = 168) self-efficacy to health advocate for themselves, others, and the community. Results revealed a significant change (p <.001), particularly in advocating for community health. Further, the teachers found that the curriculum facilitated the discussion of health-related topics in subsequent units. We will continue using the curriculum but expand it to include opportunities for authentic application and qualitative data evaluation techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Fe Journal: Feminist Critique / Fe Dergi: Feminist Elestiri is the property of Ankara University, Women's Studies Center (KASAUM) and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

The executive editor of Clues provides an overview of the issue, including articles on John Dickson Carr; Agatha Christie; Arthur Conan Doyle in Dutch translation; Umberto Eco; a YA mystery series featuring Indigenous issues; island mysteries; Korean crime fiction; and noir's relationship with works by William Faulkner, David Goodis, and John D. MacDonald. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the representation of queer identities in two popular young adult novels, "Summer of Salt" and Sometime in Summer, both authored by Katrina Leno. Utilising a queer theoretical framework, the analysis explores the use of coming-of-age narratives and elements of magical realism to create complex queer characters, mainly focusing on Felicity and Julep from Summer of Salt and Aiden from Sometime in Summer. The nuanced and complex experiences of these characters, as portrayed by Leno, are closely examined, with a particular focus on using magical realism as a genre to explore alternative realities and challenge established norms. The significance of young adult literature in reflecting and influencing the awareness of LGBTQ+ adolescents is also explored, with recognition of the decisive role that novels like these can play in cultivating a deeper understanding and acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community. The broader implications of Leno's work are analysed, emphasising its literary and cultural significance. The novels are placed within the context of the queer literary tradition and social advocacy, underscoring the importance of including diverse and authentic queer voices in young adult literature. Overall, this study highlights the significance of Leno's work in the ongoing discussion surrounding LGBTQ+ presence in the young adult genre, underscoring the need for continued efforts to promote understanding and acceptance of the diverse experiences of queer individuals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, millions of Syrians – one-third of them under the age of 18 – have sought refuge in neighbouring and far-off regions. This article explores the representations of the impact of trauma on young people and their prospects for healing in N.H. Senzai's 2018 young adult novel, Escape from Aleppo. Recent scholarship on decolonizing trauma studies urges approaches that incorporate aspects of recuperation and resilience, focusing on the possibility of post-traumatic growth and healing. Situated at the intersection of trauma studies and young adult literature, this article examines the post-traumatic growth of Senzai's young protagonist through negotiations with history that foster resilience and help Syrians to cope with distress. Representing survival through the conventions of the young adult genre, the novel balances two extremes – suffering and hopefulness – and provides an alternative response to trauma that highlights emotional growth through localized systems of knowledge available to young survivors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: This is a case of a 30-year-old male with no prior medical conditions presented to the emergency department for presumed seizures after ingesting 900 mg of caffeine via pre-workout drinks and pills. Case Presentation: The patient was described as having nearly 15 min of generalized seizure activity observed by emergency medical service, requiring midazolam. A head computerized tomography (CT) demonstrated a possible thrombus, and further, CT angiography and CT perfusion confirmed a basilar artery occlusion. He was treated with tissue plasminogen activator and underwent thrombectomy achieving TICI grade 3 in the left posterior cerebral artery and TICI grade 2b in the superior cerebellar artery. Unfortunately, the patient experienced a hemorrhagic conversion leading to an incomplete locked-in syndrome. Conclusion: This case report suggests a novel association between energy drinks and caffeine supplements as potential etiologies for rapid onset on cerebrovascular incidents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sixty percent of Indigenous people in Canada live rurally and on reserve but are largely absent among young adult and middle‐grade fiction. This critical content analysis examines representations of the land and rural places and Indigenous identities in Canadian award‐winning fiction written by Indigenous authors for young adult and middle‐grade readers. By positioning land, place, and rural Indigenous youth identities and experiences at the center of the analysis, the study contradicts dominant colonizing perspectives of "rural" and "Indigenous" that undervalue and/or disregard the lives, knowledge, and perspectives of rural Indigenous community members. Critical content analysis makes visible the books' complex representations of rural land and identities where Indigenous characters are agentic, resilient, and adaptable in the face of settler colonialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The school environment can be challenging for young people experiencing mental health concerns to express their individuality and feel accepted. There has been an increased focus on wellbeing in school-aged children, with programs targeted to building resilience and promoting inclusion. However, peer stigmatization lowers personal wellbeing by limiting social belongingness in young people with mental health concerns and this is often exacerbated by poor mental health literacy. This paper is based on a doctoral study that used a grounded theory methodology to explore adolescent responses to a novel featuring mental health concerns as a class text. This research showed that students prefer contemporary young adult novels in the English classroom to support mental health literacy due to its contemporaneity and relatability. This paper links these benefits with the role of teacher librarians in recommending young adult literature featuring mental health concerns for use in the English curriculum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson" is a book of selected interviews with Nalo Hopkinson, a prominent Black speculative fiction writer. The book, edited by Isiah Lavender III, includes 21 interviews with Hopkinson published from 1999 to 2021, covering different aspects of her career and life. Throughout the interviews, Hopkinson discusses the misrepresentation and erasure of BIPOC narratives in the science fiction genre and emphasizes the importance of conversations on race, class, gender, and sexuality in the genre. The book provides insights into Hopkinson's writing process, influences, and experiences as a queer Black woman writer. [Extracted from the article]

The nonconsensual--yet legally enshrined and politically encouraged--child relinquishments seen within certain dystopian narratives (namely, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and Lois Lowry's young adult novel The Giver) show us the nature and scope of the war crime of forced adoption. These texts contain representations of compulsory abandonments and harmful displacements which render the concept of legal or de facto adoption superfluous: prior to their conception, these chattel-infants are destined for familial and sociocultural transplantations, to be raised by privileged substitute carers. Both can be read as sharp critiques of such practices, presenting the reader with a new language with which to discuss the harms and injustices arising from the war crime of forced adoption, especially those seen recently within occupied Ukraine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With ongoing modernization and the beginning of development in Iran, the family has always undergone changes and transformations and is affected by different ideas. For this reason, the concept of patriarchy expressed in cultural signs, due to different valuations and its inseparable connection with society and power relations, has a discursive nature that can have its own effect and be a manifestation of dominant or defeated voices in a cultural structure. In this research, which is the result of an extensive research about family discourse in young adults' fictions, by examining the works in the 5 decades period of fictions writing for teenagers, we tried to find the dominant discourse in each period and the changes in the representation of patriarchy in these works. Studies show that in different time periods, the discursive representation of patriarchy, affected by the social changes of the family structure, has been as follows: 1. The first period, the 50s (metaphorical and ideological period of the family: the father in the sense of absolute power); 2. The second period at 60s and 70s: patriarchy (acceptance of power and emotionalization); 3. The third period at 80s: representation of patriarchy and resistance against it 4. The fourth period at 90s: father's absence and children's empowerment. The results show that, in the considered period, major changes can be witnessed in the representation of the patriarchal discourse, which is completely different from the discourse of the previous period, and it shows that the power and resistance between father and child, from the flow of the absolute power of the father, has progressed towards the removal of the father and the empowerment of the children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This multiple case study traced how secondary preservice social studies teachers grappled with understanding race/racism in their reading of the novel, All American Boys. Participants, all self-identified as white, consisted of two cohorts of students who attended a large midwestern university and were enrolled in an advanced social studies methods course. Drawing on notions of racial civic literacy, we analyzed participants' responses to the novel, especially as it related to the police officer character who committed racial violence on an unarmed Black youth. We asked whether the officer's actions were racist. Findings showed that participants reacted to the officer's actions in three ways: calling-out race/ism, justifying his actions, and distancing from making judgments. Participants who called out Officer Galluzzo's actions as racism saw this character as symbolic of larger systemic issues in society, whereas those who sought to justify Galluzzo's actions demonstrated faith in public institutions, such as policing and the court system. Finally, those who distanced themselves claimed to be in a space of neutrality. Results of the study suggest that faith in public institutions, often considered a hallmark of the civic mission of schooling, may be at odds with fostering racial civic literacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims at demonstrating the selected texts as Cultural texts due to their key characteristics comprising, polysemy, cultural materialism, popular culture, discourse representation, hegemony, identity, ideology, subjectivity, and politics. Within this designated objective, the present article argues that The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee serve as cultural texts rooted in the specific social setups, where textual representations are polysemic. This characteristic brings multiple meanings that are accomplished by actual readers of the text since they create meaning while they engage with the text. The study uses the characteristics of cultural texts given by Chris Barker as lens to analyse the given texts through close reading. This study is pertinent due to its novelty as cultural readings of the texts is not widely read and researched arena. Thus, the article proves that young adult literary texts while serving as zeitgeist of their times can be read as cultural texts due to representation of multiple cultural artefacts. The study suggests that while serving multiple purpose - social, cultural, or religious, young adult texts have a wide scope to be read and researched under diverse theoretical angles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study of literary characters has been acknowledged to be a thorny field. Since Alex Woloch's The One vs. the Many (2003), exciting advances are scarce. The present article proposes cognitive narratology based on Theory of Mind, which focuses on multiple levels of embedded mental states that reflect and keep track of other characters' mental states (conveniently summarized as "I know that you know that I know"1), as a new analytical framework to push forward the study of literary characters and at the same time to test the validity of applying such a cognitive theory in literary studies. Through an analysis of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, a young adult (YA) fiction popular all over the world, it is argued that the protagonist Percy, who is also the figural narrator of the novel, distributes his mind‐reading activities on other characters unevenly. The distance between minor characters and Percy determines whether the narrator's discourse about them is accompanied by the narrator's interest in reading their minds, which is most clearly illustrated when they are first introduced in the novel. When Percy meets Annabeth for the first time, he subconsciously tries to bring their relationship closer at the discourse level by creating three levels of embedded mental states that include both of them as cognitive agents. Although this strong passion has not yet been fully revealed explicitly at the story level, it is discernable in the formal features of Percy's discourse. As the story develops, Percy's mind‐reading of Annabeth becomes a subconscious habit, whereas his narratorial treatments of two other minor characters have been steadily kept below three levels of embedded mental states. In this light, the complex relationships between these characters can be shown in a more pragmatic way by adopting Theory of Mind analysis, thus enabling us to explore the cognitive pattern of the text and offering a new perspective for the study of characters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Studii de Ştiintă şi Cultură is the property of Studii de Stiinta si Cultura and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

This qualitative study examines the consequential evasive dis- course moves 23 PSTs made during critical conversations about a young adult novel. Findings illustrated how PSTs engaged in a constellation of discourse moves--what we've theorized as shielding--that disrupted PSTs' critical engagement with sociopolitical content and perpetuated whiteness. Although not all talk was protective, some participants responded to peers' shielding to refocus conversation on critical content. While fewer in number, these critical moments suggest hope. The authors offer implications for the field in supporting PST engagement with and facilitation of critical talk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I explore how fears of incorporation, sexual violence, permeability and 'leakiness' and metaphorical and literal villains are negotiated within the contemporary fairy tale retelling tradition. Through the close reading and comparative analysis of two twenty-first century Young Adult (YA) retellings of 'Little Red Riding Hood' from the 2010s (Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce and Elana K. Arnold's Red Hood), I argue that this representation and negotiation of sexual, violent, and gustatory appetites is made possible due to the intersection of the fairy tale, horror, and YA genres, creating a unique space in which the lycanthropic and human figures are sources of dread and intrigue and the terrifying and absurd. In doing so, I argue that this contemporary tradition continues the well-established narrative of the fairy tale as a site of simultaneous high dramatics and interrogation of the everyday. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I explore how fears of incorporation, sexual violence, permeability and ‘leakiness’ and metaphorical and literal villains are negotiated within the contemporary fairy tale retelling tradition. Through the close reading and comparative analysis of two twenty-first century Young Adult (YA) retellings of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ from the 2010s (Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce and Elana K. Arnold’s Red Hood), I argue that this representation and negotiation of sexual, violent, and gustatory appetites is made possible due to the intersection of the fairy tale, horror, and YA genres, creating a unique space in which the lycanthropic and human figures are sources of dread and intrigue and the terrifying and absurd. In doing so, I argue that this contemporary tradition continues the well-established narrative of the fairy tale as a site of simultaneous high dramatics and interrogation of the everyday.

This article is the editor's preface for an issue of Western Folklore. The issue features a working paper by Professor Tok Thompson, who gave a lecture on postnational folklore at a conference. The paper serves as a prototype for a working papers issue, with senior scholars offering responses to the lecture content. The article introduces the three contributors to the issue: Dr. Jose E. Limón, Dr. Juwen Zhang, and Dr. Domino R. Perez. The goal of the issue is to bring together multiple voices and generate ideas and intellectual relationships in the field of folklore and cultural studies. [Extracted from the article]

Young Adult Cli‑Fi benefits from young readers appetite for science fiction and dystopia and the attention they give to environment, climate crisis and ecology. These novels often relay media cliché about some kind of fiction talking about present time or near future (Langlet, 2020). Furthermore, young adult cli-fi continues historic tension between entertainment and knowledge literature for young readers. On one hand, entertainment with no real concern for scientific plausibility, on the other hand, commitment to raise consciousness and motivate action, with scientific basis. This paper will study through French novels the reconfiguration of cities in young adult cli-fi, between cultural and generational conventions and ecofictional requirement (Chelebourg, 2012). Cultural and generational references feed urban imaginations. Scientific basis, fundamental in cli‑fi, adapt to the needs of educational purpose. Urban spaces are plausible regarding our present and knowledge, far from the sci‑fi estrangement experience. These novels are cli-fi but also teen novels. Urban spaces express disaster imagination but may be some ground for game and initiation. Through this symbol of adult hubris, the opposition between kids and adults renews, according to the dystopian model (Bazin, 2019). Young and ecofictional heroes may have different purposes: save the world, giving grandeur back to humanity, or leave the City to create a new society, with ou without cities.

What if critique were understood as a form of Choose Your Own Adventure, the second-person young adult format in which readers are given the agency to decide what happens next in a story? To embark on critique as you would Choose Your Own Adventure is to be intentional in your orientations; it is to situate your framework, materials, and your self in relation to each other and to reflect on what this hermeneutic constellation produces and obscures. This article argues that transparency about critical positionality is a precondition for German studies to flourish and for epistemological abundance to endure. It asks what this might look like in practice, offering the reader three critical excursions through a single film, Angelina Maccarone's Unveiled (2005). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyses the depiction of autism in Marcelo in the Real World, a young adult fiction novel, to critically explore the identity formation of the character Marcelo who navigates the challenges and complexities of the real world. By using the grounded theory and drawing on ideas from disability studies and social identity theory, the research demonstrates that parental guidance, encouragement and normal treatment of friends, and exposure to conflicts and contradictions are the most significant factors and can help autistic adolescents understand social life, improve social competence, and obtain power and control in social relations, promoting positive identity formation. The use of grounded theory methodology enables a full examination of Marcelo's experiences and the fundamental mechanisms guiding the development of his identity. This research deepens our comprehension of identity construction under the setting of autism, advancing both theoretical understanding and useful interventions for autistic adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]