The Boys Club

Male Protagonists in Contemporary African American Young Adult Literature

von Wendy Rountree

134 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The Boys Club: Male Protagonists in Contemporary African American Young Adult Literature is a study of prominent issues and themes such as education, identity, and racism in contemporary (i.e., post-Civil Rights era) young adult novels written primarily for African American boys by African American men and women writers. Representative works by writers Candy Dawson Boyd, Curtis Paul Curtis, Sharon G. Flake, Kenji Jasper, Kekla Magoon, Williams McDaniels, Walter Dean Meyers, and Jacqueline Woodson are analyzed. Ultimately, this book illustrates how men and women writers of young adult literature for African American boys reveal and validate the difficulties of growing up young, Black, and male in modern-day American society, and thereby seek to improve the lives of their readers.

• Reihe: Masculinity Studies
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1900 bis 2000
• ISBN: 9781433105746
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.06.2011
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York