The Boys Club : Male Protagonists in Contemporary African American Young Adult Literature Hardback
by Wendy Rountree
Part of the Masculinity Studies series
Hardback
Description
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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:134 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Publication Date:23/06/2011
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- ISBN:9781433105746
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:134 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Publication Date:23/06/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781433105746
