Unwriting & Queering: Power and Love in the Margins of YA Literature

Chapters

• Front Cover
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• Table of Contents
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• Introduction: Unwriting & Queering
  Nicky Didicher
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• Fall 2023, Power at the Margins: Explorations of Queer YA Literature
• “Time passes, and people forget. Don’t let them”: Like A Love Story and the Educational Strength of Historical Fiction
  Meghan Danyluk
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• Queering Utopian Space through TranSFormations in Binti: The Complete Trilogy
  Humaira Daud
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• Fashion Do’s and Don’ts: Clothing & Sexuality in Like a Love Story
  Helen Dinh
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• The Magical Portrayal of Queer Characters in YA and Children’s Fantasy Literature
  Kaitlin Ho
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• The Violence of Femininity and Beauty Standards: Examining Miel’s Identity Struggles in When the Moon Was Ours
  Melissa Iverson
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• Trans-Forming Unmapped Bodies: The Importance of Names in Anna-Marie McLemore’s When the Moon Was Ours
  Aubrey Malinis
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• Boy Exorcist: Ghosts of Hegemonic Masculinity in Jibaku Shōnen Hanako-kun
  Tiffany Tran
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• Reagan, Rhetoric, and Resistance: Analyzing the Social and Political Conflict of Abdi Nazemian’s Like a Love Story
  Sydney Wierenga
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• Like it Matters: Body and Identity in Like a Love Story
  Sung Bin Yim
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• Summer 2024, Queering the Queer: Who We Are and How We Love in YA Romance Fiction
• Drawing Lines: Henna, Identity, and Queerness in The Henna Wars
  Gurleen Buttar
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• Beyond the Framework: Identity Formation in Hani & Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating through Marcia’s Lens
  Krusha Dave
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• Strange Relations: Monstrosity, Intimacy, and Queer Possibility in The Summer Hikaru Died
  Mika Goli
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• Last Day on the Library Shelves
  Kayla Gourlay
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• Escaping the Patriarchy While Enjoying Its Pleasures: Women’s Relocation of Erotic Gendered Violence into Queer Male Romance
  Delaney Kamstra
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• Queer Pride…and Prejudice: How Most Ardently Adapts Pride and Prejudice
  Josiah Loewen
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• She’s the Man: Gender Performativity in Queer YA Fiction
  Ella McKnight, Emily Thornton
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• Lesbians in 1950s America: Legal Violence and Lesbian Spaces
  Danika Mein
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• Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Lacking in Representation
  Stephanie Pao
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• Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered: Performance and Male Impersonation in Malinda Lo’s Last Night at the Telegraph Club
  Victoria Perperidis
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• Ancient Retelling: Examining Appropriation in The Song of Achilles
  Amelia Usborne
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• Fall 2024, Unwriting Love: Destabilizing Heteronormativity in Romance Narratives
• “Maybe I’m Just Broken”: An Analysis of Trauma and Queer Acceptance in The Summer of Bitter and Sweet
  Malika Arora
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• Carry On: A Parody of the Harry Potter Series
  Adelina Baikenova
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• “Not Today, Colonizer”: Reclaiming Voice through T-Shirts in The Summer of Bitter and Sweet
  Lindsay Dober
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• Listen for the Sound of Love: The Queer Romance Missing in Audio Drama
  D.B. Eliot
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• Learning about Lou: Exploring Dual Identities in The Summer of Bitter and Sweet
  Peter Hance
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• Exploitation for Empowerment: Resisting Heteronormativity and Sexism in Hollywood
  Mackenzie Katz
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• Sexual Boundary-Setting in The Summer of Bitter and Sweet
  Mackenzie Morrow
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