Cancer and Young Adult Literature

Auteur

Stephen M. Zimmerly is associate professor of English at the University of Indianapolis.

Texte du rabat

This collection critically presents arguments studying cancer as it is portrayed in Young Adult literature. The essays included offer insights into cancer and families, cancer and relationships, cancer and story-telling, and more.

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Chapter 1: Monster Theory and Parental Loss in A Monster Calls

Sarah Minslow

Chapter 2: The Wilting Branch: The Effects of Cancer on the Family Unit

Abigail Bailey

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

Alessia Silvestrin

Chapter 4: Last Things: Sick Protagonists' Bucket Lists

Jennifer Marchant

Chapter 5: Grounded in Fantasy or Reality: Comparing real-life accounts of adolescent cancer with fictional themes of experience in popular YA texts.

Katie Doering

Chapter 6: "Oddest and Most Hopeless:" Leukemia, the YA Cancer Narrative, and Writing for Young Adults

Stephen M. Zimmerly

Chapter 7: Teenage Hospital Romance among the Cancerously Ill in Cellular and Too Young to Die

Arka De Barman

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)

Jesse Bair