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Teaching YA Cancer Narratives: The Fault in Our Stars and Issues with Voicing Illness

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avondale-bepress.abstract<p>Increasingly publishers are promoting illness as a commodifiable literary product. There is now a wide range of autobiographical and fictional texts that explore life-threatening illnesses from the embodied perspective of protagonists. This trend is also evidenced in the content of young adult literature where concepts of the diseased self, agency and mortality are explored. The aim of this paper is to provide some background context on illness narratives and offer a close reading of the young adult text, <em>The Fault in our Stars</em> by John Green, in order to highlight important issues such as the accurate and realistic portrayal of cancer, particularly in the lived experience of adolescent readers. It is anticipated that this discussion will allow classroom teachers to engage more fully in conversations about text selection and content, and the ways in which literature can advance realistic representation of illness that previously have been culturally taboo.</p>
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avondale-bepress.authorsLynnette Lounsbury
avondale-bepress.authorsCarolyn Rickett
avondale-bepress.authorsPaul T. Race
avondale-bepress.authorsPaul Bogacs
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avondale-bepress.field.custom_citationLounsbury, L., Rickett, C., Bogacs, P., & Race, P. T. (2019). Teaching YA cancer narratives: The fault in our stars and issues with voicing illness. <em>TEACH Journal of Christian Education, 13</em>(1), 37-45. doi:10.55254/1835-1492.1404
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avondale-bepress.keywordsteaching YA literature; cancer narratives; young adult literature; the fault in our stars
avondale-bepress.keywordsvoicing illness
avondale-bepress.keywordsethics and literature
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avondale-bepress.publication-titleTEACH Journal of Christian Education
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avondale-bepress.titleTeaching YA Cancer Narratives: The Fault in Our Stars and Issues with Voicing Illness
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dc.contributor.authorBogacs, Paul
dc.contributor.authorRace, Paul T.
dc.contributor.authorRickett, Carolyn
dc.contributor.authorLounsbury, Lynnette
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-01T00:28:30Z
dc.date.available2023-11-01T00:28:30Z
dc.date.issued2019-10-01
dc.date.submitted2019-04-04T21:20:20Z
dc.description.abstract<p>Increasingly publishers are promoting illness as a commodifiable literary product. There is now a wide range of autobiographical and fictional texts that explore life-threatening illnesses from the embodied perspective of protagonists. This trend is also evidenced in the content of young adult literature where concepts of the diseased self, agency and mortality are explored. The aim of this paper is to provide some background context on illness narratives and offer a close reading of the young adult text, <em>The Fault in our Stars</em> by John Green, in order to highlight important issues such as the accurate and realistic portrayal of cancer, particularly in the lived experience of adolescent readers. It is anticipated that this discussion will allow classroom teachers to engage more fully in conversations about text selection and content, and the ways in which literature can advance realistic representation of illness that previously have been culturally taboo.</p>
dc.identifier.citationLounsbury, L., Rickett, C., Bogacs, P., & Race, P. T. (2019). Teaching YA cancer narratives: The fault in our stars and issues with voicing illness. <em>TEACH Journal of Christian Education, 13</em>(1), 37-45. doi:10.55254/1835-1492.1404
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.55254/1835-1492.1404
dc.identifier.urihttps://research.avondale.edu.au/handle/123456789/14185113
dc.language.isoen_us
dc.publisherAvondale Academic Press
dc.subjectteaching YA literature; cancer narratives; young adult literature; the fault in our stars
dc.subjectvoicing illness
dc.subjectethics and literature
dc.titleTeaching YA Cancer Narratives: The Fault in Our Stars and Issues with Voicing Illness
dc.typeJournal Article
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