- 189 pages
- English
- PDF
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Cancer and Young Adult Literature
About this book
This collection specifically and solely focuses on Young Adult literature texts where cancer plays a prominent role, including widely-read texts like John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, Nicholas Sparks' A Walk to Remember, and Jesse Andrews' Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. The chapters present a variety of arguments, each developing a novel investigation into how these stories explore the effects cancer has on a person, a family, or on a relationship. As scientific studies continue to devlop new understandings of the biology behind cancer, and new sociological studies continue to uncover how a cancer diagnosis impacts the fabric of our culture(s), these collected essays continue to investigate how authors have woven cancer into the stories we write for young people. A number of distinct avenues are taken here, arguing for new approaches in crafting narrative, deeper appreciation for family support networks (or their absence), and what literary criticism can uncover when applied to cancer narratives.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Monster Theory and Parental Loss in A Monster Calls
- Chapter 2: The Wilting Branch: The Effects of Cancer on the Family Unit
- Chapter 3: A Matter of Perspectives: How Pediatric Patients and Parents Cope with Cancer and Death in Ways to Live Forever and Before I Die
- Chapter 4: Last Things: Sick Protagonistsā Bucket Lists
- Chapter 5: Grounded in Fantasy or Reality?: Comparing Real-Life Accounts of Adolescent Cancer with Fictional Themes of Experience in Popular Young Adult Texts
- Chapter 6: āOddest and Most Hopelessā: Leukemia, the Young Adult Cancer Narrative, and Writing for Young Adults
- Chapter 7: Teenage Hospital Romance among the Cancerously Ill in Cellular and Too Young to Die
- Chapter 8: EcoGothic and Bodily Decay in the Film Adaptations of A Walk to Remember (2002), Now Is Good (2012), The Fault in Our Stars (2014), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), and Clouds (2020)
- Index
- About the Editor and Contributors