Chicanerds In Chicana Young Adult Literature

Author : Cristina Herrera
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000091946

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ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature by Cristina Herrera Pdf

ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature analyzes novels by the acclaimed Chicana YA writers Jo Ann Yolanda Hernández, Isabel Quintero, Ashley Hope Pérez, Erika Sánchez, Guadalupe García McCall, and Patricia Santana. Combining the term "Chicana" with "nerd," Dr. Herrera coins the term "ChicaNerd" to argue how the young women protagonists in these novels voice astute observations of their identities as nonwhite teenagers, specifically through a lens of nerdiness—a reclamation of brown girl self-love for being a nerd. In analyzing these ChicaNerds, the volume examines the reclamation and powerful acceptance of one’s nerdy Chicana self. While popular culture and mainstream media have shaped the well-known figure of the nerd as synonymous with white maleness, Chicana YA literature subverts the nerd stereotype through its negation of this identity as always white and male. These ChicaNerds unite their burgeoning sociopolitical consciousness as young nonwhite girls with their "nerdy" traits of bookishness, math and literary intelligence, poetic talents, and love of learning. Combining the sociopolitical consciousness of Chicanisma with one aligned to the well-known image of the "nerd," ChicaNerds learn to navigate the many complicated layers of coming to an empowered declaration of themselves as smart Chicanas.

Author : Trevor Boffone,Cristina Herrera
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780816542758

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Latinx Teens by Trevor Boffone,Cristina Herrera Pdf

Latinx Teens examines how Latinx teenagers influence twenty-first-century U.S. popular culture. The book explores the diverse ways that contemporary mainstream film, television, theater, and young adult literature invokes, constructs, and interprets adolescent Latinidad.

Author : Paul Venzo,Kristine Moruzi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000393446

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Sexuality in Literature for Children and Young Adults by Paul Venzo,Kristine Moruzi Pdf

Expanding outward from previous scholarship on gender, queerness, and heteronormativity in children’s literature, this book offers fresh insights into representations of sex and sexuality in texts for young people. In this collection, new and established scholars examine how fiction and non-fiction writing, picture books, film and television and graphic novels position young people in relation to ideologies around sexuality, sexual identity, and embodiment. This book questions how such texts communicate a sense of what is possible, impossible, taboo, or encouraged in terms of being sexual and sexual being. Each chapter is motivated by a set of important questions: How are representations of sex and sexuality depicted in texts for young people? How do these representations affect and shape the kinds of sexualities offered as models to young readers? And to what extent is sexual diversity acknowledged and represented across different narrative and aesthetic modes? This work brings together a diverse range of conceptual and theoretical approaches that are framed by the idea of sexual becoming: the manner in which texts for young people invite their readers to assess and potentially adopt ways of thinking and being in terms of sex and sexuality.

Author : Francisco A. Lomelí,Osiris Aníbal Gómez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816549764

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Juan Felipe Herrera by Francisco A. Lomelí,Osiris Aníbal Gómez Pdf

For the first time, this book presents the distinguished, prolific, and highly experimental writer Juan Felipe Herrera. This wide-ranging collection of essays by leading experts offers critical approaches on Herrera, who transcends ethnic and mainstream poetics. It expertly demonstrates Herrera’s versatility, resourcefulness, innovations, and infinite creativity. As a poet Herrera has had an enormous impact within and beyond Chicano poetics. He embodies much of the advancements and innovations found in American and Latin American poetry from the early l970s to the present. His writings have no limits or boundaries, indulging in the quotidian as well as the overarching topics of his era at different periods of his life. Both Herrera and his work are far from being unidimensional. His poetics are eclectic, incessantly diverse, transnational, unorthodox, and distinctive. Reading Herrera is an act of having to rearrange your perceptions about things, events, historical or intra-historical happenings, and people. The essays in this work delve deeply into Juan Felipe Herrera’s oeuvre and provide critical perspectives on his body of work. They include discussion of Chicanx indigeneity, social justice, environmental imaginaries, Herrera’s knack for challenging theory and poetics, transborder experiences, transgeneric constructions, and children’s and young adult literature. This book includes an extensive interview with the poet and a voluminous bibliography on everything by, about, and on the author. The chapters in this book offer a deep dive into the life and work of an internationally beloved poet who, along with serving as the poet laureate of California and the U.S. poet laureate, creates work that fosters a deep understanding of and appreciation for people’s humanity. Contributors Trevor Boffone Marina Bernardo-Flórez Manuel de Jesús Hernández-G. Whitney DeVos Michael Dowdy Osiris Aníbal Gómez Carmen González Ramos Cristina Herrera María Herrera-Sobek Francisco A. Lomelí Tom Lutz Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez Marzia Milazzo Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger Rafael Pérez-Torres Renato Rosaldo Donaldo W. Urioste Luis Alberto Urrea Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez

Author : Charlotte Beyer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030912895

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Decolonising the Literature Curriculum by Charlotte Beyer Pdf

This book explores pedagogical approaches to decolonising the literature curriculum through a range of practical and theoretically-informed case studies. Although decolonising the curriculum has been widely discussed in the academe and the media, sustained examinations of pedagogies involved in decolonising the literature at university level are still lacking in English and related subjects. This book makes a crucial contribution to these evolving discussions, presenting current and critically engaged pedagogical scholarship on decolonising the literature curriculum. Offering a broad spectrum of accessible chapters authored by experienced national and international academics, the book is structured into two parts, Texts and Contexts, presenting case studies on decolonising the literature curriculum which range from the undergraduate classroom, university writing centres, through to the literary doctorate.

Author : Claudia Nelson,Elisabeth Wesseling,Andrea Mei-Ying Wu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000984521

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The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture by Claudia Nelson,Elisabeth Wesseling,Andrea Mei-Ying Wu Pdf

Focusing on significant and cutting-edge preoccupations within children’s literature scholarship, The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature and Culture presents a comprehensive overview of print, digital, and electronic texts for children aged zero to thirteen as forms of world literature participating in a panoply of identity formations. Offering five distinct sections, this volume: Familiarizes students and beginning scholars with key concepts and methodological resources guiding contemporary inquiry into children’s literature Describes the major media formats and genres for texts expressly addressing children Considers the production, distribution, and valuing of children’s books from an assortment of historical and contemporary perspectives, highlighting context as a driver of content Maps how children’s texts have historically presumed and prescribed certain identities on the part of their readers, sometimes addressing readers who share some part of the author’s identity, sometimes seeking to educate the reader about a presumed “other,” and in recent decades increasingly foregrounding identities once lacking visibility and voice Explores the historical evolutions and trans-regional contacts and (inter)connections in the long process of the formation of global children’s literature, highlighting issues such as retranslation, transnationalism, transculturality, and new digital formats for considering cultural crossings and renegotiations in the production of children’s literature Methodically presented and contextualized, this volume is an engaging introduction to this expanding and multifaceted field.

Author : Norma Elia Cantú
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816551835

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Chicana Portraits by Norma Elia Cantú Pdf

This innovative collection pairs portraits with critical biographies of twelve key Chicana writers, offering an engaging look at their work, contributions to the field, and major achievements. Artist Raquel Valle-Sentíes’s portraits bring visual dimension, while essays delve deeply into the authors’ lives for details that inform their literary, artistic, feminist, and political trajectories and sensibilities. The collection brilliantly intersects artistic visual and literary cultural productions, allowing complex themes to emerge, such as the fragility of life, sexism and misogyny, Chicana agency and forging one’s own path, the struggles of becoming a writer and battling self-doubt, economic instability, and political engagement and activism. Arranged chronologically by birth order of the authors, the book can be read cover to cover for a genealogical overview, or scholars and general readers can easily jump in at any point and read about an individual author, regardless of the chronology. Biographies included in this work include Raquel Valle-Sentíes, Angela de Hoyos, Montserrat Fontes, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Norma E. Cantú, Denise Elia Chávez, Carmen Tafolla, Cherríe Moraga, Ana Castillo, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Sandra Cisneros, and Demetria Martínez. Contributors Cordelia E. Barrera Mary Pat Brady Norma E. Cantú María Jesus Castro Dopacio Carlos Nicolás Flores Myrriah Gómez Maria Magdalena Guerra de Charur Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs Georgina Guzmán Cristina Herrera María Esther Quintana Eliza Rodríguez y Gibson Meagan Solomon Lourdes Torres Raquel Valle-Sentíes Jen Yáñez-Alaniz

Author : Sinead Moriarty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000262575

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Antarctica in British Children’s Literature by Sinead Moriarty Pdf

For over a century British authors have been writing about the Antarctic for child readers, yet this body of literature has never been explored in detail. Antarctica in British Children’s Literature examines this field for the first time, identifying the dominant genres and recurrent themes and tropes while interrogating how this landscape has been constructed as a wilderness within British literature for children. The text is divided into two sections. Part I focuses on the stories of early-twentieth-century explorers such as Robert F. Scott and Ernest Shackleton. Antarctica in British Children’s Literature highlights the impact of children’s literature on the expedition writings of Robert Scott, including the influence of Scott’s close friend, author J.M. Barrie. The text also reveals the important role of children’s literature in the contemporary resurgence of interest in Scott’s long-term rival Ernest Shackleton. Part II focuses on fictional narratives set in the Antarctic, including early-twentieth-century whaling literature, adventure and fantasy texts, contemporary animal stories and environmental texts for children. Together these two sections provide an insight into how depictions of this unique continent have changed over the past century, reflecting transformations in attitudes towards wilderness and wild landscapes.

Author : Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak,Irena Barbara Kalla
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000205992

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Rulers of Literary Playgrounds by Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak,Irena Barbara Kalla Pdf

Rulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children’s Literature offers multifaceted reflection on interdependences between children and adults as they engage in play in literary texts and in real life. This volume brings together international children’s literature scholars who each look at children’s texts as key vehicles of intergenerational play reflecting ideologies of childhood and as objects with which children and adults interact physically, emotionally, and cognitively. Each chapter applies a distinct theoretical approach to selected children’s texts, including individual and social play, constructive play, or play deprivation. This collection of essays constitutes a timely voice in the current discussion about the importance of children’s play and adults’ contribution to it vis-à-vis the increasing limitations of opportunities for children’s playful time in contemporary societies.

Author : Blanka Grzegorczyk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351385381

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Terror and Counter-Terror in Contemporary British Children’s Literature by Blanka Grzegorczyk Pdf

The widespread threat of terrorist and counter-terrorist violence in the twenty-first century has created a globalized context for social interactions, transforming the ways in which young people relate to the world around them and to one another. This is the first study that reads post-9/11 and 7/7 British writing for the young as a response to this contemporary predicament, exploring how children’s writers find the means to express the local conditions and different facets of the global wars around terror. The texts examined in this book reveal a preoccupation with overcoming various forms of violence and prejudice faced by certain groups within post-terror Britain, as well as a concern with mapping out their social relations with other groups, and those concerns are set against the recurring themes of racist paranoia, anti-immigrant hostility, politicized identities, and growing up in countries transformed by the effects of terror and counter-terror. The book concentrates on the relationship between postcolonial and critical race studies, Britain’s colonial legacy, and literary representations of terrorism, tracing thematic and formal similarities in the novels of both established and emerging children’s writers such as Elizabeth Laird, Sumia Sukkar, Alan Gibbons, Muhammad Khan, Bali Rai, Nikesh Shukla, Malorie Blackman, Claire McFall, Miriam Halahmy, and Sita Brahmachari. In doing so, this study maps new connections for scholars, students, and readers of contemporary children’s fiction who are interested in how such writing addresses some of the most pressing issues affecting us today, including survival after terror, migration, and community building.

Author : Cristina Herrera
Publisher : Latinx and Latin American Prof
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822948230

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Welcome to Oxnard by Cristina Herrera Pdf

Michele Serros (1966-2015) is widely known for her groundbreaking book Chicana Falsa and Other Stories of Death, Identity, and Oxnard. Despite her status as a major figure in Chicanx literature, no scholar has written a book-length examination of her body of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction--until now. Cristina Herrera, also from Oxnard, weaves in history, autoethnography, and literary analysis to explore Chicana adolescence and young womanhood with a focus on place-making. Factoring in location, region, and landscape, Herrera asks what it means to grow up Chicana in settings that carry centuries of colonial violence, segregation, and everyday racism against Mexican American communities. She contends that Serros used her hometown to broaden understandings of who and what constitutes Chicanx communities and identities. By reading Serros's work in tandem with her lived experience in the same setting, Herrera uncovers moments of adolescent subjectivity that could only be vocalized and constructed within this particular locale. Herrera pushes against the tendency to separate the author from the text and argues for a spatial understanding of Chicana adolescence, race, class, and young womanhood.

Author : Trevor Boffone,Cristina Herrera
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496827494

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Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks by Trevor Boffone,Cristina Herrera Pdf

Contributions by Carolina Alonso, Elena Avilés, Trevor Boffone, Christi Cook, Ella Diaz, Amanda Ellis, Cristina Herrera, Guadalupe García McCall, Domino Pérez, Adrianna M. Santos, Roxanne Schroeder-Arce, Lettycia Terrones, and Tim Wadham In Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult Literature, the outsider intersects with discussions of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. The essays in this volume address questions of outsider identities and how these identities are shaped by mainstream myths around Chicanx and Latinx young people, particularly with the common stereotype of the struggling, underachieving inner-city teens. Contributors also grapple with how young adults reclaim what it means to be an outsider, weirdo, nerd, or goth, and how the reclamation of these marginalized identities expand conversations around authenticity and narrow understandings of what constitutes cultural identity. Included are analysis of such texts as I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Shadowshaper, Swimming While Drowning, and others. Addressed in the essays are themes of outsiders in Chicanx/Latinx children’s and young adult literature, and the contributors insist that to understand Latinx youth identities it is necessary to shed light on outsiders within an already marginalized ethnic group: nerds, goths, geeks, freaks, and others who might not fit within such Latinx popular cultural paradigms as the chola and cholo, identities that are ever-present in films, television, and the internet.

Author : Millicent Lenz,Ramona Mahood
Publisher : Chicago : American Library Association
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015046350016

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Young Adult Literature by Millicent Lenz,Ramona Mahood Pdf

Author : Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs,Cristina Herrera
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0916304256

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Indomitable / Indomables by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs,Cristina Herrera Pdf

Indomitable / Indomables: A Multigenre Chicanx/Latinx Women's Anthology is a pathbreaking anthology of women's writings by an ensemble cast of Chicanx and Latinx superstars. Edited by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs and Cristina Herrera.Edited by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs Cristina Herrera, with a Foreword by Eliza Rodríguez-this pathbreaking anthology includes poetry by Kathleen Alcalá; Catalina Marie Cantú, Norma Elia Cantú, Xánath Caraza, Claudia Castro Luna, Margarita Cota-Cárdenas, Anel I. Flores, Shirley Flores Muñoz, Carmen Giménez Smith, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, María Herrera-Sobek, Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros, Demetria Martínez, Lydia Z. Martínez Vega, Maiah Merino, Achy Obejas, Melinda Palacio, Melanie Pérez Ortiz, Naomi Helena Quiñonez, Odilia Rodríguez, Ruth Irupé Sanabria, Natalia Treviño, Graciela Vega, and Evangelina Vigil-Piñón. The volume also includes short stories by Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Christine Granados, Donna Miscolta, Toni Margarita Plummer, and Nelly Rosario. It also features "Teresa Talks" pieces by Kathleen Alcalá, Norma Elia Cantú, Aurora Chang, Margarita Cota-Cárdenas, Shirley Flores Muñoz, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Erlinda Gonzáles-Berry, Myriam Gurba, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Cristina Herrera, Aída Hurtado, Demetria Martínez, Josie Méndez-Negrete, Martina Giselle Ramírez, and Jeanette Rodriguez. Select memoirs by Kathleen Alcalá, Amelia María de la Luz Montes, Myriam Gurba, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Josie Méndez-Negrete, Rebecca Saldaña, and Helena María Viramontes. Lastly it contains significant novel excerpts from the pens of Norma Elia Cantú, Erlinda Gonzáles-Berry, Lucrecia Guerrero, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Kirsten Millares Young, Carla Trujillo, and Helena María Viramontes. It concludes with an afterword by Deena González

Author : Marilisa Jiménez García
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496832498

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Side by Side by Marilisa Jiménez García Pdf

Winner of the Children’s Literature Association’s 2023 Book Award During the early colonial encounter, children’s books were among the first kinds of literature produced by US writers introducing the new colony, its people, and the US’s role as a twentieth-century colonial power to the public. Subsequently, youth literature and media were important tools of Puerto Rican cultural and educational elite institutions and Puerto Rican revolutionary thought as a means of negotiating US assimilation and upholding a strong Latin American, Caribbean national stance. In Side by Side: US Empire, Puerto Rico, and the Roots of American Youth Literature and Culture, author Marilisa Jiménez García focuses on the contributions of the Puerto Rican community to American youth, approaching Latinx literature as a transnational space that provides a critical lens for examining the lingering consequences of US and Spanish colonialism for US communities of color. Through analysis of texts typically outside traditional Latinx or literary studies such as young adult literature, textbooks, television programming, comics, music, curriculum, and youth movements, Side by Side represents the only comprehensive study of the contributions of Puerto Ricans to American youth literature and culture, as well as the only comprehensive study into the role of youth literature and culture in Puerto Rican literature and thought. Considering recent debates over diversity in children’s and young adult literature and media and the strained relationship between Puerto Rico and the US, Jiménez García's timely work encourages us to question who constitutes the expert and to resist the homogenization of Latinxs, as well as other marginalized communities, that has led to the erasure of writers, scholars, and artists.