Moving Beyond Personal Loss to Societal Grieving (eBook)

Michelle M. Falter is an assistant professor of English education at North Carolina State University. Michelle’s scholarship focuses on dialogic, critical, and feminist pedagogies, emotion in the teaching of literature and writing in secondary classrooms, English teacher education, and adolescent literature. She has previously co-edited the book Teaching Outside the Box but Inside the Standards: Making Room for Dialogue with Teachers College Press. Steven T. Bickmore is an associate professor of English education at the University of Nevada and a past editor of The ALAN Review (2009-2014). He maintains a weekly academic blog on YA Literature—Dr. Bickmore's YA Wednesday (http://www.yawednesday.com/) and his research includes how English teachers negotiate the teaching of literature using young adult literature, especially around the issues of race, class, and gender.

ForewordTBAAcknowledgements IntroductionSteven T. BickmorePart I: Grief and Facing MortalityChapter 1- Disruption of Adolescent-Adult and Death-Life Binaries: The Experiences of Elizabeth Hall in ElsewhereMark LewisChapter 2- Confronting Death and Mourning in the Liminal through Short StoriesRené Saldaña, Jr.Chapter 3- Mourning a Missing Generation: Using Pedro and Me to Teach the AIDS Epidemic and to ACT UP in ELA ClassroomsJames Joshua ColemanPart II: MurderChapter 4- When it Feels Like Death, but It Ain’t: Spirit-murder in All American BoysStephanie P. JonesChapter 5- The Hate U Give: Experiencing Death and Grief in the Face of Social JusticeTiye Naeemah CortChapter 6- Discussing Death in Getting Away with Murder in Order to Understand a MovementJackie MercerPart III: Mass TragediesChapter 7- Finding Closure through Mockingbird: When A Community Tragedy is PersonalLindsay SchneiderChapter 8- This is Where It Ends: How Studying School Shootings from Multiple Perspectives Promotes Critical LiteracyShelly Shaffer, Amye Ellsworth, and Kellie CrawfordChapter 9- Graphic Young Adult Literature Representations of Brutalized Communities: Exploring Loss through Don Brown’s Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New OrleansShelbie Witte and Jennifer S. DailPart IV: War And GenocideChapter 10- Discussing War-related Death and Trauma through Storytelling in The Things They CarriedGretchen Rumohr-Voskuil and Deborah Vriend Van DuinenChapter 11- Discussing War and Death with A Separate Peace by John KnowlesLeilya Pitre and Steven BickmoreChapter 12- “We Were Dangerous, and Brainwashed to Kill”: Death and Resilience in A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy SoldierJanine Julianna Darragh and Ashley S. BoydChapter 13- Teaching the Act of Witnessing in Maus and NightCrystal Chen Lee and Cathlin GouldingChapter 14- When a Character Dies: Comfort and Discomfort in Refugee Book GroupsSarah J. DonovanAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsIndex