Contingent Contradictions and the (Il)Logics of Adolescence: Examining How Undergraduates in an LGBTQ+ Young Adult Literature Course Read Queer Youth

• Published in: Reading research quarterly Vol. 60; no. 1
• Main Authors: Smith, Kyle P., Wargo, Jon M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.01.2025

This article explores how undergraduate students enrolled in a postsecondary course centering LGBTQ+ young adult literature came to discursively construct notions of queer youth. Braiding postdevelopmental and poststructural theories of childhood with queer theory, we interrogated how what we name a...