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Exploring Young Adult Literature

Session 6 - Sunday 9:45-11:15am
Ching Hall 253
Presiding Officer: 
Sara M. Hines
  1. "Little Magic": Oral Pleasure and Power in Ella Enchanted. Elizabeth Reimer, Thompson Rivers University

    Through her linguistic and culinary acuity, Ella Enchanted reconfigures the social structures of some earlier “Cinderella” stories. “Magic” foods and words both threaten and sustain Ella through periods of deprivation and predation that she endures en route to her happy ending as “Court Linguist and Cook’s Helper.”

  2. J.K. Rowling's Representations of Death in Harry Potter: Creating Understanding. Monica Sabahi, California State University, Fullerton

    The Harry Potter series works as a means of creating an understanding of how death is represented to contemporary society through genocide, murder, and accidents. Rowling depicts death and the pursuit of immortality as a means of coming to terms with world events and pop-culture understanding of aging and death.

  3. The Roads to Kathmandu in the Francophone Literature of the 1960s-70s: The Drug Travel Narrative as an Apprenticeship Novel. Alexandre Marchant, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France

    The analysis of Francophone autobiographical novels from young hippies shows the ways Young Adult literature can deal with some issues of the wandering youth like mind exploration trough drugs, construction of self-identity, borderline behaviors or the way to become an adult through life’s hurdles.

  4. Vampires and Youth: Surviving Adolescence in a Postmodern World. Shannon Tarango, University of California, Riverside

    This study tracks the trajectory of contemporary depictions of vampires in order to accentuate the relationship between youth and vampire fiction. This attempt at understanding youth’s appetite for vampire narratives illustrates how these narratives reflect the experience of adolescence in a postmodern world.

Session Type: 
Special Session
Session Status: 
Closed