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Young Adult literature, from The Outsiders to Harry Potter, has helped shape the cultural landscape for adolescents perhaps more than any other form of consumable media in the twentieth and twenty-first century. With the rise of mega blockbuster films based on these books in recent years, the young adult genre is being co-opted by curious adult readers and by Hollywood producers. However, while the genre may be getting more readers than ever before, Young Adult literature remains exclusionary and problematic: few titles feature historically marginalized individuals, the books present heteronormative perspectives, and gender stereotypes continue to persist. Taking a critical approach, Young Adult Literature: Challenging Genres offers educators, youth librarians, and students a set of strategies for unpacking, challenging, and transforming the assumptions of some of the genre's most popular titles. Pushing the genre forward, Antero Garcia builds on his experiences as a former high school teacher to offer strategies for integrating Young Adult literature in a contemporary critical pedagogy through the use of participatory media.

Children’s literature --Study and teaching (Elementary). --- Young adult literature -- History and criticism. --- Young adult literature -- Study and teaching. --- Education --- Languages & Literatures --- Social Sciences --- Literature - General --- Education - General --- Young adult literature --- History and criticism. --- Education. --- Education, general. --- Young adults --- Books and reading. --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Young adult literature. --- Books for teenagers --- Teenage literature --- YA literature --- Young adult books --- Literature

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At a time when the Mediterranean has rediscovered its own vitality, seven academics from the fields of education and literature look at how fictions set in the region narrate the role of the teacher from the point of view of the students and from that of the teachers themselves. While an increasingly technocratic approach to the performance of teachers focuses on competences, these often highly subjective narratives tell stories of practitioners who refuse to fit into the mould imposed on them by patriarchy or the educational institutions. The writers dealt with in this volume are aware that teachers cannot be solely defined in terms of what they are expected to do within schools and classrooms. This reductively conceives them as simply needing the skills to teach without having the ability to contextualise their teaching within wider historical, social and cultural realities. With its migration flows and intricate web of social and cultural politics, the Mediterranean of the 21st century is an ideal space for reflections on the role of the teacher in an ever-changing society.

Education. --- Literature -- Study and teaching -- Mediterranean Region. --- Teachers -- Mediterranean Region. --- Teaching -- Mediterranean Region. --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Education - General --- Literature --- Studying and teaching --- History and criticism. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Education, general. --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Teachers. --- Study and teaching. --- Faculty (Education) --- Instructors --- School teachers --- Schoolteachers --- School employees --- Literature, Modern --- Language arts --- Study and teaching

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Literature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries presents a ground-breaking comparative approach to the study of multicultural literature. Focusing on the development of migration literature in Sweden, Denmark, Flanders, and the Netherlands, the volume argues that the political and institutional preconditions for the development of ‘multicultural’ literatures are still given within the frame of the nation-state. As a consequence, both the field of ‘migration literature’ and the (multi-)lingual quality of literary texts are shaped differently in each state and in each language area. The volume delineates the development of multicultural literature in Scandinavia and the Low Countries as a function of the specific language situations in these countries as well as the various political, institutional, and discursive contexts. This book not only offers a comprehensive theoretical and methodological analysis of multilingualism and multicultural literature, but also provides overviews sketching the discourse on multiculturalism, language and the development of the literary field in Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Flanders. Besides it presents a broad range of in-depth analyses of selected literary texts from each of these countries.

Sociology of literature --- Netherlands --- Scandinavia and Iceland --- Belgium --- Scandinavian literature --- Dutch literature --- Flemish literature --- Multiculturalism --- Multilingualism --- Multiculturalism in literature --- Multilingualism and literature --- Immigrants' writings --- Emigration and immigration in literature --- Minority authors --- History and criticism --- Communication interculturelle --- Multiculturalisme --- Dans la littérature --- Ethnic groups in literature -- Study and teaching. --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Multicultural education -- Netherlands. --- Languages & Literatures --- Germanic Literature --- 82:3 --- Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- Literatur. --- Sprache. --- Multikulturelle Gesellschaft. --- Skandinavien. --- Beneluxländer. --- Multiculturalisme in de letterkunde --- Scandinavische letterkunde --- Nederlandstalige letterkunde --- Meertaligheid --- Nederland --- Vlaanderen --- Scandinavië --- auteurs uit minderheidsgroepen --- 82:3 Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- Multiculturalisme in de letterkunde. --- Nederland. --- Vlaanderen. --- Scandinavië. --- auteurs uit minderheidsgroepen. --- Auteurs uit minderheidsgroepen. --- Multiculturalism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Communication interculturelle. --- Dans la littérature. --- Scandinavian literature. --- Writings of immigrants --- Literature --- Literature and multilingualism --- Plurilingualism --- Polyglottism --- Language and languages --- Cultural diversity policy --- Cultural pluralism --- Cultural pluralism policy --- Ethnic diversity policy --- Social policy --- Anti-racism --- Ethnicity --- Cultural fusion --- Belgian literature (Dutch) --- Belgian literature --- Government policy --- Scandinavian literature - Minority authors - History and criticism - Congresses --- Dutch literature - Minority authors - History and criticism - Congresses --- Flemish literature - Minority authors - History and criticism - Congresses --- Multiculturalism - Scandinavia - Congresses --- Multiculturalism - Benelux countries - Congresses --- Multilingualism - Scandinavia - Congresses --- Multilingualism - Benelux countries - Congresses --- Multiculturalism in literature - Congresses --- Multilingualism and literature - Congresses --- Immigrants' writings - History and criticism - Congresses --- Emigration and immigration in literature - Congresses