The boys club
Rountree, Wendy, 1972-
The boys club male protagonists in contemporary African American young adult literature / [electronic resource] : Wendy Rountree. - New York : Peter Lang, c2011. - 134 p. - Masculinity studies: literary and cultural representations, v. 1 2161-2692 ; . - Masculinity studies ; v. 1. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Defining manhood: the function of violence in Kenji Jasper's Dark and Sharon G. Flake's Bang! -- Where have all the fathers gone?: searching for identity in Jacqueline Woodson's Miracle's Boys -- It's all in the way you play the game: African American boys and basketball in William Mcdaniels' Abdul and the designer tennis shoes and Walter Dean Myers' Game -- Are you gonna teach me something?: African American boys and the classroom in Candy Dawson Boyd's Chevrolet Saturdays -- Depicting male/female relationships in Walter Dean Myers' Motown and Didi and Jacqueline Woodson's If you come softly -- Looking back, looking forward: the role of the past in Christopher Paul Curtis' Bud, not buddy and Kekla Magoon's The rock and the river.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
Young adult literature, American--History and criticism.
Protagonists (Persons) in literature.
Boys in literature.
African American men in literature.
African American young adults--Books and reading.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 / R686 2011eb
813/.54099283608996073
The boys club male protagonists in contemporary African American young adult literature / [electronic resource] : Wendy Rountree. - New York : Peter Lang, c2011. - 134 p. - Masculinity studies: literary and cultural representations, v. 1 2161-2692 ; . - Masculinity studies ; v. 1. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Defining manhood: the function of violence in Kenji Jasper's Dark and Sharon G. Flake's Bang! -- Where have all the fathers gone?: searching for identity in Jacqueline Woodson's Miracle's Boys -- It's all in the way you play the game: African American boys and basketball in William Mcdaniels' Abdul and the designer tennis shoes and Walter Dean Myers' Game -- Are you gonna teach me something?: African American boys and the classroom in Candy Dawson Boyd's Chevrolet Saturdays -- Depicting male/female relationships in Walter Dean Myers' Motown and Didi and Jacqueline Woodson's If you come softly -- Looking back, looking forward: the role of the past in Christopher Paul Curtis' Bud, not buddy and Kekla Magoon's The rock and the river.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
Young adult literature, American--History and criticism.
Protagonists (Persons) in literature.
Boys in literature.
African American men in literature.
African American young adults--Books and reading.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 / R686 2011eb
813/.54099283608996073