TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wendy Rountree
PY  - 2012
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2161-2692
SN  - 9781453907801
TI  - The Boys Club
T2  - Male Protagonists in Contemporary African American Young Adult Literature
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-0780-1
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050875
N2  - 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.
KW  - African Americans, African American Young Adult Literature, African American boys, African American Children's Literature
LA  - English
ER  -