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The boys club : male protagonists in contemporary African American young adult literature
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The boys club : male protagonists in contemporary African American young adult literature / Wendy Rountree.
ISBN
9781433105746 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1433105748 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
New York : Peter Lang, c2011.
Physical Description
134 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 25, 2011
Series
Masculinity studies: literary and cultural representations ; v. 1
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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