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Beyond Borders compiles essays from various authors who explore the queerness of young adult literature that contains lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and questioning characters, some written by LGBTQ identified authors, while presenting lessons for secondary English classrooms. As queer theorists, the authors ask if young adult literature can imagine other spaces, representations, ways of being, identifications, and inclusion of LGBTQ characters and stories. This collection examines questions of theory as well as classroom literacy practices, while employing new theories in novel and creative intersections with literary texts. The book is perfect for teacher education courses focused on young adult literature, as well as secondary English education courses including methods of teaching English courses, teaching literature methods courses, queer theory in education courses, teaching of writing courses, and content area literacy courses.

Beyond Borders: Queer Eros and Ethos (Ethics) in LGBTQ Young Adult Literature

Contents: Darla Linville/David Lee Carlson:Telling New Stories - Amanda Haertling Thein/Kate E. Kedley: Out of the Closet and All Grown Up: Problematizing Normative Narratives of Coming-Out and Coming-of-Age in Young Adult Literature - David Lee Carlson: Queer Recognition and Interdependence: LGBTQ Young Adult Literature and the Contemporary Moment - Angelo Benozzo/Mirka Koro-Ljungberg/Sergia Adamo: Billy Elliot, Swan Lake, and Shifting Queering Effects - Kevin J. Burke/Adam J. Greteman: Friendship as/and Shared Enmity - E. Sybil Durand: At the Intersections of Identity: Race and Sexuality in LGBTQ Young Adult Literature - Jill M. Hermann-Wilmarth/Caitlin L. Ryan: Destabilizing the Homonormative for Young Readers: Exploring Tash's Queerness in Jacqueline Woodson's After Tupac and D Foster - William P. Banks/Jonathan Alexander: After Homonormativity: Hope for a (More) Queer Canon of Gay YA Literature - Darla Linville: Creating Spaces of Freedom for Gender and Sexuality for Queer Girls in Young Adult Literature - Jacqueline Bach/Chaunda Allen Mitchell: Exploring the Tensions of Reading LGBTQ YAL With Higher Education Student Affairs Professionals - sj Miller: Reading YAL Queerly: A Queer Literacy Framework for Inviting (A)Gender and (A)Sexuality Self-Determination and Justice - Kirsten Helmer: Queer Literacies: A Multidimensional Approach to Reading LGBTQ-Themed Literature - Nicole Sieben: Openly Straight: A Look at Teaching LGBTQ Young Adult Sports Literature through a Queer Theory Youth Lens - Mollie V. Blackburn/Caroline T. Clark: Afterword to Beyond Borders: Queer Eros and Ethics in LGBTQ Young Adult Literature.