Young Adult Literature

A study of literature written for adolescents, including influential early, classic, and contemporary texts by such writers as S.E. Hinton, Walter Dean Myers, Jacqueline Woodson, and J.D. Salinger. Topics for investigation may include the rise of YA literature as a separate genre, changing visions of adolescence, coming of age, depictions of sexuality, and various controversies that have arisen around YA literature. 616 / 1272 Queens College