This edited collection presents new essays on Melvin Burgess and an interview with the author, introducing readers to the debates surrounding his work and status as an author of controversial young adult fiction. The volume outlines existing critical...
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This edited collection presents new essays on Melvin Burgess and an interview with the author, introducing readers to the debates surrounding his work and status as an author of controversial young adult fiction. The volume outlines existing critical approaches to his fiction and showcases innovative developments in children's literature studies. Cover -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: CONTROVERSY AND THE CULTURAL CONTEXT -- 1 'One of the Boys'? Writing Sex for Teenagers in Doing It -- 2 'Keeping it Real': The Debate for Boyhood and its Representations in Doing It and Kill All Enemies -- 3 The Girl and the Streets: Postfeminist Identities in Junk, Doing It and Sara's Face -- PART II: FORM, STYLE AND GENRE -- 4 Beyond Face Value: Playing the Game with Sara's Face -- 5 Dystopian Worlds and Ethical Subjectivities in Bloodtide and Bloodsong -- 6 Transformation, Text and Genre in The Birdman -- PART III: HUMAN AND ANIMAL IDENTITIES -- 7 Borderland: The Animal World of Melvin Burgess -- 8 'You Know What I Mean': The Development of Relationships between Socially Isolated Characters in An Angel for May, Loving April and The Ghost behind the Wall -- 9 Challenging the Paradigm: Examining The Baby and Fly Pie and The Earth Giant through Ecocriticism -- PART IV: TELLING STORIES -- 10 Found Fiction: An Interview with Melvin Burgess -- Further Reading -- Index.
