(In)visible presence : feminist counter-narratives of young adult literature by women of color

CHAPTER 6: BLENDING NARRATIVES, BLENDING LIVES:Immigration, Desti[Nation], and Identity in Latina Young Adult LiteratureThe Migration Story and Young Adult Literature; Americanization and Young Adult Literature; The New vs. The Old; FINAL THOUGHTS; RECOMMENDED READING; TEACHABLE MOMENT; IN THE CLASSROOM; NOTE; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 7: CENTRAL POWER, NEW FRONTIER:Female Supremacy, Imagination and Nationhood in Contemporary NativeAmerican Young Adult Literature; Preserving Community through Imagination; Looking at the Landscape; Women as Supreme Beings; Changing the Landscape; FINAL THOUGHTS Current school systems create a generation of students who experience institutional practices that honor other students' needs--those students who share the values of those with power--and have pathologized other groups, specifically women of color. (In) Visible Presence intends to contribute to existing pedagogy, which empowers students, teachers, administrators, and policy makers to develop participatory membership in schools and among citizens who can begin to create an anti-oppressive society. (In) Visible Presence contains a holistic, thematic approach to exploring young adult (YA) novels written by women of color, while providing cultural and historical contexts for interpreting and analyzing their work through a feminist lens. Unlike other scholarship, (In) Visible Presence uses a feminist theoretical framework to create a space in which select literary works offer counter-narratives that can be analyzed and critically interpreted according to principles and ideas intended to validate women, thus making their triumph over racism, sexism, classism, and heterosexism and equity challenges a visible cause relegating consequential change for both young girls and women of color. (In) Visible Presence maintains current discourse dialogue through a concentration on the intersectionality of gender, race, and class identities and how these identifiers serve as criteria for privilege and marginalization, even in YA literature. (In) Visible Presence aims to explore YA literature written by women of color represented by African American, Asian American, Indian American, and Latina Americans. Our theoretical perspective focuses on the connection of race, gender, and class that is exclusive to women of color. The construction of "voice" and "space" is important for readers to hear from those once silenced Native American YouthAsian American Youth; FROM SILENCED TO MAKING WAVES; First Wave: Women's Suffrage; Second Wave: Multicultural; Third Wave: All Inclusive; DEFINING WOMEN OF COLOR; WHAT IS IN A NAME?; CONTEMPORARY WOMEN OF COLOR AUTHORS; AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORS; Jacquelyn Woodson; Sharon Flake; Toni Morrison; Virginia Hamilton; Rita Williams Garcia; AMERICAN INDIAN AUTHORS; Louise Erdrich; Leslie Marmon Silko; Cynthia Leitich Smith; ASIAN AMERICAN AUTORS; Maxine Hong Kingston; Lensey Namioka; An Na; Janice Mirikitani; LATINA/CHICANA AUTHORS; Sandra Cisneros; Judith Ortiz Cofer TABLE OF CONTENTS; I:INVISIBILITY; CHAPTER 1: SETTING THE STAGE OF SILENCE:Introduction; BOOK OVERVIEW; MEMOIRS OF TRAILBLAZERS; TEACHABLE MOMENTS; IN THE CLASSROOM; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2: VOICELESSNESS:Theorizing the Silence; CRITICAL RACE THEORY; CRITICAL LITERACY; What is the Role of YA Literature and Critical Literacy?; CULTURALLY RELEVANT PEDAGOGY; FINAL THOUGHTS; WORKS BY FEMINISTS OF COLOR; TEACHABLE MOMENTS; IN THE CLASSROOM; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3: FROM SILENCED TO VOICE:(Re)Naming and (Re)Claiming; CURRENT WAYS OF MAKING INVISIBLE; African American Youth; Latina/o Youth Guadalupe Garcia McCallSandra Maria Esteves; Pam Muñoz Ryan; FINAL THOUGHTS; RECOMMENDED FEMALE AUTHORS OF COLOR; African American Authors; Native American Authors; Asian American Authors; Latina Authors; TEACHABLE MOMENT; IN THE CLASSROOM; REFERENCES; II: MOTHERING FROM WOMEN OFCOLOR'S PERSPECTIVES; CHAPTER 4: ALWAYS CARRYING THE LOAD:The Presence of African American Motherhood in Young Adult Literature; (DYS)FUNCTIONAL FAMILY SYSTEM; OUR CHILDREN, OUR VOICES: BLACK MOTHERING COUNTER-NARRATIVE; Othermothering; Mother-Daughter Dynamic/Relationship Community Othermothers and Political ActivistFINAL THOUGHT; RECOMMENDED READINGS; TEACHABLE MOMENT; IN THE CLASSROOM; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5: JOURNEY TO THE CENTER:Exploring Motherhood, Guardianship, and Empowermentin Latina Young Adult Literature; Family as Community; Womanhood and Guardianship; Parts vs the Whole, The Internal Struggle; The Power of Culture and (Folk)Lore; FINAL THOUGHTS; RECOMMENDED READINGS; TEACHABLE MOMENT; IN THE CLASSROOM; REFERENCES; III:IMMIGRATION/NATIONHOOD/MIGRANT EXPERIENCE Front Matter....Pages i-viii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Setting the Stage of Silence....Pages 3-12 Voicelessness....Pages 13-25 From Silenced to Voice....Pages 27-46 Front Matter....Pages 47-47 Always Carrying the Load....Pages 49-63 Journey to the Center....Pages 65-81 Front Matter....Pages 83-83 Blending Narratives, Blending Lives....Pages 85-94 Central Power, New Frontier....Pages 95-105 Front Matter....Pages 107-107 Will Work For Equity....Pages 109-123 The Power of Talk-Stories....Pages 125-141