BNC CataList - Spring 2021 Drop-in: Featuring selections from our distributed publishers

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Spring 2021 Drop-in: Featuring selections from our distributed publishers

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Series: Children's Literature Association Series Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture Paperback Derritt Mason 9781496830999 $37.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Dec 28, 2020

Young adult literature featuring LGBTQ+ characters is booming. In the 1980s and 1990s, only a handful of such titles were published every year. Recently, these numbers have soared to over one hundred annual releases. Queer characters are also appearing more frequently in film, on television, and in video games. This explosion of queer representation, however, has prompted new forms of longstanding cultural anxieties about adolescent sexuality. What makes for a good "coming out" story? Will increased queer representation in young people's media ... + Read More