{"title":"Getting Better:","authors":"L. V. Schaik, I. Kickbusch","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1fkgcb9.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1fkgcb9.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":296955,"journal":{"name":"Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126664486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Works Cited","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1fkgcb9.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1fkgcb9.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":296955,"journal":{"name":"Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture","volume":"129 17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132879161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Back Matter","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1fkgcb9.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1fkgcb9.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":296955,"journal":{"name":"Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124469935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-28DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496830982.003.0009
Derritt Mason
This book’s conclusion reiterates the argument that queer YA is an anxious genre that perpetually rehearses a nervous uncertainty about its own constitution. Mason steps back to consider queer YA’s relationship to children’s literature more broadly, entering the discussion through a concept developed in Beverley Lyon Clark’s Kiddie Lit: the “anxiety of immaturity” that circulates around and within children’s literature and its criticism. Mason revisits the “Great YA Debate” of 2014, which followed a Slate piece by Ruth Graham entitled “Adults Should Be Embarrassed to Read Young Adult Books.” This debate included high profile pieces by Christopher Beha and A.O. Scott in The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker, both of which evince a profound ambivalence about whether or not adults should be reading young adult literature. These conversations, Mason concludes, illustrate how young adult literature continues to be an unceasing source of adult anxiety.
这本书的结论重申了这样的观点:酷儿青少年是一种焦虑的类型，它永远在排练一种对自身体质的紧张不确定性。梅森退后一步，更广泛地考虑酷儿青少年文学与儿童文学的关系，通过贝弗利·里昂·克拉克(Beverley Lyon Clark)的《儿童文学》(Kiddie Lit)中提出的一个概念进入讨论:在儿童文学及其批评中循环的“不成熟的焦虑”。梅森重温了2014年的“青少年大辩论”，当时露丝·格雷厄姆在Slate上发表了一篇题为“成年人应该为阅读青少年书籍感到尴尬”的文章。这场辩论包括克里斯托弗·贝哈(Christopher Beha)和A.O.斯科特(A.O. Scott)在《纽约时报杂志》(New York Times Magazine)和《纽约客》(New Yorker)上发表的备受瞩目的文章，这两篇文章都表明，成年人是否应该阅读青少年文学，这是一种深刻的矛盾心理。梅森总结说，这些对话说明了青少年文学是如何不断成为成年人焦虑的来源。
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{"title":"Visibility:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1fkgcb9.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1fkgcb9.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":296955,"journal":{"name":"Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126186373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CONCLUSION","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1fkgcb9.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1fkgcb9.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":296955,"journal":{"name":"Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture","volume":"273 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124230562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-28DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496830982.003.0002
Derritt Mason
This chapter revisits the first-ever young adult book with gay content, John Donovan’s I’ll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip., originally published in 1969. Mason finds value in elements of this novel that have been critiqued over the years: invisibilities, ambiguities, nonteleological ways of conceiving growth, and, specifically, how the protagonist never has a “coming out” moment. Donovan’s adolescent protagonist, Davy, resists what Kathryn Bond Stockton calls, in The Queer Child, “the vertical, forward-motion metaphor of growing up,” instead “growing sideways” through his relationship with his pet dachshund, Fred. This novel, Mason argues—so often lambasted for its hopelessness, stereotypes, and omissions—is a lot queerer than it may initially appear, and much more relevant to contemporary notions of sexuality and queerness than many critics have suggested.
这一章回顾了有史以来第一本包含同性恋内容的青少年读物，约翰·多诺万的《我会到达那里》。最好值得这趟旅行。，最初出版于1969年。梅森从这本小说多年来一直受到批评的元素中发现了价值:不可见性、模糊性、对成长的非目的性理解，尤其是主人公如何从未有过“出柜”的时刻。多诺万笔下的青春期主人公戴维，抗拒凯瑟琳·邦德·斯托克顿(Kathryn Bond Stockton)在《酷儿》(The Queer Child)中所说的“纵向、向前发展的成长隐喻”，而是通过与宠物腊肠犬弗雷德(Fred)的关系“横向成长”。梅森认为，这部小说——经常因为它的绝望、刻板印象和遗漏而受到抨击——比它最初看起来要离奇得多，比许多评论家认为的与当代性和酷儿概念更相关。
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{"title":"Acknowledgments","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1fkgcb9.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1fkgcb9.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":296955,"journal":{"name":"Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129762960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-28DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496830982.003.0007
Derritt Mason
This chapter considers Dan Savage and Terry Miller’s It Gets Better project, an anti-bullying YouTube campaign that launched in 2010 following a rash of queer youth suicides, and argues that this project is a site of convergence for children’s literature and adult fictions. Mason suggests that the circulation and adaptation of cultural texts like It Gets Better across and through multiple genres—what he refers to, after Kathryn Bond Stockton, as a text and/or genre’s “sideways growth”—challenge critics to widen their theoretical lenses for the study of young people’s texts and culture. The book version of It Gets Better engages in a repetitive anxious rehearsal of its own metanarrative of “getting better” and renders the project (im)possible, Mason argues, drawing on Jacqueline Rose’s The Case of Peter Pan. While It Gets Better fails politically, it succeeds nonetheless at generating critical cultural discourse about how adults address queer youth.
本章讨论了Dan Savage和Terry Miller的It Gets Better项目，这是一个反欺凌的YouTube活动，在2010年一系列酷儿青年自杀事件之后发起，并认为这个项目是儿童文学和成人小说的融合网站。梅森认为，像《It Gets Better》这样的文化文本的流通和改编跨越了多种体类——他以凯瑟琳·邦德·斯托克顿(Kathryn Bond Stockton)的名字命名，称之为文本和/或体类的“横向增长”——挑战了评论家们拓宽理论视角，以研究年轻人的文本和文化。梅森认为，书中版本的《变得更好》对自己的元叙事“变得更好”进行了反复的焦虑排练，并使这个项目(不)成为可能，借鉴了杰奎琳·罗斯的《彼得潘的故事》。虽然《变得更好》在政治上失败了，但它成功地引发了关于成年人如何对待酷儿青年的批判性文化话语。
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Pub Date : 2020-12-28DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496830982.003.0005
Derritt Mason
This chapter draws on Andrew Smith’s 2014 novel Grasshopper Jungle to explore the representation of queerness as a locus of dystopian adolescent experiences and, by hyperbolic extension, the cause of the apocalypse. Smith’s novel satirically amplifies the idea that adolescence is itself a kind of dystopia, and simultaneously points to how queer sex is a kind of darkness—or invisibility—often “experienced as unbearable,” in Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman’s words, by critics of queer young adult literature. Austin, Grasshopper Jungle’s history-obsessed narrator, records in astonishing detail the world’s destruction by mutant bugs, yet Austin’s moment of sexual intimacy with his male best friend remains a striking silence in his otherwise scrupulous account. This chapter concludes that Grasshopper Jungle’s excessive rendering of YA’s storm, stress, darkness, and violence ironically makes visible the novel’s unwillingness to confront the unbearability associated with queer sex.
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