Cancer and young adult literature / edited by Stephen M. Zimmerly.

Contents Monster Theory and Parental Loss in A Monster Calls / Sarah Minslow -- The Wilting Branch: The Effects of Cancer on the Family Unit / Abigail Bailey -- A Matter of Perspectives: How Pediatric Patients and Parents Cope with Cancer and Death in Ways to Live Forever and Before I Die / Alessia Silvestrin -- Last Things: Sick Protagonists' Bucket Lists / Jennifer Marchant -- Grounded in Fantasy or Reality: Comparing real-life accounts of adolescent cancer with fictional themes of experience in popular YA texts / Katie Doering -- "Oddest and Most Hopeless:" Leukemia, the YA Cancer Narrative, and Writing for Young Adults / Stephen M. Zimmerly -- Teenage Hospital Romance among the Cancerously Ill in Cellular and Too Young to Die / Arka De Barman -- EcoGothic and Bodily Decay in the Film Adaptations of A Walk to Remember (2002), Now is Good (2012), The Fault in Our Stars (2014), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), and Clouds (2020) / Jesse Bair.
Abstract "This collection critically presents arguments studying cancer as it is portrayed in Young Adult literature. The essays included offer insights into cancer and families, cancer and relationships, cancer and story-telling, and more"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formLiterary criticism.
Genre/formCritiques littéraires.
LCCN 2024041398
ISBN9781666927566
ISBN1666927562 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book