1st Edition
Teaching Culturally Sustaining and Inclusive Young Adult Literature Critical Perspectives and Conversations
Foreword by Sonia Nieto
Section I Literary Criticism and Literacy Education
1. Introduction: Inclusive Young Adult Literature
2. Scribal Identities and the Self-Affirmation of Adolescents
3. Gender and Sexuality in Young Adult Literature
4. Schooling and Education of Young Adult Characters
5. Teachers in the Young Adult Fiction of Bambara and Cisneros
Section II Conversations with Authors of Young Adult Literature
6. Jeff Anderson: "We Are Our Stories"
7. Matt de la Peña: "Giving Them Back the Literature"
8. Joe Jiménez: "The Difference between Thirst and Hunger"
9. Guadalupe Garcia McCall: "Books as Small Offerings"
10. Isabel Quintero: "There Is No Hiding from the Self"
11. Benjamin Alire Sáenz: "A Riot in the Heart"
12. Erika L. Sánchez: "A Right to Art"
13. End Points and Sign Posts
Appendix A: Young Adult Literature Cited in the Text
Biography
R. Joseph Rodríguez is Assistant Professor of Literacy, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education in the Kremen School of Education and Human Development at California State University, Fresno, USA.
