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• Title: Examining Images of Urban Life
• Author : Laura M. Nicosia
• Release Date : January 04, 2020
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 987 KB

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There are novels that portray cities as magical places, others as stifling, imposing environments, and others still as a gritty but beautiful, living landscape. Cities can be the center of culture, business, the arts, and are the meeting places for diversities of all kinds. Examining Images of Urban Life gathers contributions from scholars, educators, and young adult authors, like Benjamin Alire Saenz and e.E. Charlton-Trujillo, who consider how living in a city affects character identity and growth, and the ways authors world-build the urban setting. The collection discusses what the urban landscape means, and dispels the media-driven, anecdotally propagated preconceptions about city living.


Urban life is varied and rich, just as its literature is. The collection revolves around a reconsideration of what the city represents, to its readers and to its inhabitants, and serves as a resource in urban settings, wherein teachers can select books that mirror and advocate for the students sitting in their classes.


Perfect for courses such as: Young Adult Literature | Children’s Literature | Elementary Literacy | Reading and Literacy | Methods of Teaching | Public Purposes of Education | Educational or Historical Foundations of Education | Urban Studies | Media and Library Sciences


Introduction:
Celebrating the City

Laura M. Nicosia and James F. Nicosia


Chapter One:

An Author’s Perspective: Finding Your Place in the Landscape

e.E. Charlton-Trujillo


Chapter Two:

Storifying the City: Examining Representations of Urban Areas in Sherri L. Smith’s Orleans

Sean P. Connors


Chapter Three:

Genre and Gentrification in the Young Adult Novel

Karen Coats


Chapter Four:

Tears on Concrete: Shaping Youth Identities in the Shadows of Gentrification in Daniel José Older’s Shadowshaper

Tricia M. Kress and Patricia Patrissy


Chapter Five:

An Author’s Perspective: Where I Can Plant the Seeds

Benjamin Alire Sáenz


Chapter Six:

“Somewhere away from the Lights of the City”: Unsettling the Normative Frameworks of Urban Space in Queer Young Adult Literature

Angel Daniel Matos


Chapter Seven:

Anti-Urbanism in Willa Cather’s Mythical West

Melinda Knight


Chapter Eight:

The Poetic City: The Importance of the City Setting in The Poet X

Katie Sluiter


Chapter Nine:

An Author’s Perspective: An Undocumented Girl Finds a Sense of Belonging

Maria Andreu


Chapter Ten:

The Urban and the Urbane: Girls and New York City in Cecily von Ziegesar’s Gossip Girl and Rita Williams-Garcia’s Jumped

Emma K. McNamara


Chapter Eleven:

The Sensual City: Jason Reynolds’s When I Was the Greatest and The Boy in the Black Suit

James F. Nicosia and Laura M. Nicosia


Chapter Twelve:

An Author’s Perspective: Music Lives in the City

Mary Rand Hess


Chapter Thirteen:

Visions of the City: Examining Urban Landscapes in Shaun Tan’s Visual Narratives

Wendy R. Williams and Kristina D. ByBee


Editor Bios


Contributor Bios


Index

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