Article Title：Disturbing the peace:: The function of young adult literature and the case of Catherine!Atkins' 'When Jeff Comes Home'
Abstract：
Our criticism and evaluation of young adult literature is tempered not only by the scope of our knowledge of adolescent literature in general, but also by our notions of adolescence, itself. Adolescent literature that, in Michael Cart's terminology, shatters the shibboleths of adolescence and adolescent culture, has the potential to re-shape the paradigms that delineate teen culture. Catherine Atkins' When Jeff Comes Home is an example of such revolutionary YA fiction. With When Jeff Comes Home, Atkins not only rewrites and redefines the rape novel for young people, she re-casts the victim role with society's anti-victim-the able-bodied, athletic, upper middle class white male.
Keywords: realism in fiction; literary evaluation; adolescence; young adult literature
DOI: 10.1023/B:CLID.0000041781.89615.7b
Source：CHILDRENS LITERATURE IN EDUCATION
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