The boys club
Subtitle: male protagonists in contemporary African American young adult literature
By: Wendy Rountree
Series: Masculinity studies: literary and cultural representations -- v. 1
Publisher: Peter Lang; Peter Lang Publishing
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9781433105746
Subjects: African American young adults; African American men in literature; History and criticism; American literature; Protagonists (Persons) in literature; Books and reading; American Young adult literature; Boys in literature; African American authors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Defining manhood: the function of violence in Kenji Jasper's Dark and Sharon G. Flake's Bang!; title: Where have all the fathers gone?: searching for identity in Jacqueline Woodson's Miracle's Boys; title: 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; title: Are you gonna teach me something?: African American boys and the classroom in Candy Dawson Boyd's Chevrolet Saturdays; title: Depicting male/female relationships in Walter Dean Myers' Motown and Didi and Jacqueline Woodson's If you come softly; title: 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.