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Podcast: New Books in Communications
Episode: Angel Daniel Matos, "The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature" (Routledge, 2024)
Description: The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult LiteratureĀ (Routledge, 2024)Ā is a provocative meditation on emotion, mood, history, and futurism in the critique of queer texts created for younger audiences. Given critical demands to distance queer youth culture from narratives of violence, sadness, and hurt that have haunted the queer imagination, this volume considers how post-2000s YA literature and media negotiate their hopeful purview with a broaderāand ongoingāhistory of queer oppression and violence. It not only considers the tactics that authors use in bridging a supposedly ābadā queer past with a ābetterā queer present, but also offers strategies on...