Call for Papers
Lifestyle Narratives-22nd and 23rd November 2003
Liverpool John Moores University UK
Papers are invited for a strand on TEXTS FOR YOUNG ADULTS, to be co-
ordinated by Dr. Mel Gibson & Dr. Kay Sambell
The Young Adult (YA) texts are to be popular fictions in any medium (e.g.
television, film, radio, print fiction, periodicals, comics/graphic
novels, video games and animation) and from any period. They should
address the following topics, which include, but are not limited to:
-The presentation of so-called ‘difficult’ issues for the young (such as
drug-taking, sex and sexuality, homelessness)
-themes of despair, darkness, pessimism and dystopias for young readers
-representations of the young adult within the text (discourses of
adolescence and growing up)
-censorship, controversy and texts for young adults
-portrayals of moral consciousness, civic and political responsibility and
moral dilemmas (issues such as war, terrorism, state control, nuclear and
ecological threat)
-themes of power and powerlessness in YA texts
-different forms of writing (such as letters, diaries, first-person
narration)
-We will also welcome papers that examine cultural practices associated
with young adult audiences and popular texts.
Please send an abstract of 200-300 words by July 1st 2003 to Dr. Kay
Sambell, Northumbria University, Childhood & Family Studies, Coach Lane
campus (East), Coach Lane, Benton, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE7 7XA, UK or as
an e-mail attachment to [log in to unmask]
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