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Life Abounding with Possibilities: Using Queer Young Adult Literature to Locate and Articulate Living and Thriving for Queer Youth of Color

Williams, Josh D
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3731-7127
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu166093914599579

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2022, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, EDU Teaching and Learning.
This dissertation is a text-based analysis of queer young adult literature featuring queer youth of color. The project utilizes literary analysis and enters into conversation with queer theorist of color (Snorton; Sharpe) to help define and articulate my notion of livability. I define livability as a method of recognizing and envisioning how minoritized peoples—specifically queer youth of color—live and thrive currently within and despite systemic oppression as well as the future aspirations of living and thriving without systemic oppression. Focusing on several queer young adult novel (Silvera’s More Happy Than Not; McLemore’s When the Moon was Ours; Oshiro’s Anger is a Gift), I demonstrate how the young adults within these novels enact livability and bring them into conversation with the theoretical ideas of queer of color theory. In doing so, I expand and refine the idea of livability by focusing on three aspects of the large theoretical idea—identity, embodiment, and resistance. Taking the literary analysis further, I offer possibilities for teaching queer young adult novels that feature queer youth of color in secondary classroom, showing the relevance and potential beneficial impact these books can have for all students. In this way, my dissertation brings together literary analysis and queer of color theory to show the relevance of queer youth adult literature to our current political and social moment.
Mollie Blackburn (Advisor)
Michelle Abate (Committee Member)
Shannon Winnubst (Committee Member)
Ashley Pérez (Committee Member)
176 p.
Comparative Literature; Education; Literature
young adult literature, queer youth adult literature, queer of color theory, critical race theory, education, secondary education

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  • Williams, J. D. (2022). Life Abounding with Possibilities: Using Queer Young Adult Literature to Locate and Articulate Living and Thriving for Queer Youth of Color [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu166093914599579

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Williams, Josh. Life Abounding with Possibilities: Using Queer Young Adult Literature to Locate and Articulate Living and Thriving for Queer Youth of Color. 2022. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu166093914599579.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Williams, Josh. "Life Abounding with Possibilities: Using Queer Young Adult Literature to Locate and Articulate Living and Thriving for Queer Youth of Color." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu166093914599579

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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