The Boys Club
Male Protagonists in Contemporary African American Young Adult Literature
©2011
Monographs
VIII,
134 Pages
Series:
Masculinity Studies, Volume 1
Summary
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.
Details
- Pages
- VIII, 134
- Publication Year
- 2011
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781433105746
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781453907801
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-1-4539-0780-1
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2012 (February)
- Keywords
- African Americans African American Young Adult Literature African American boys African American Children's Literature
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2011. VIII, 134 pp.
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