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Contingent Contradictions and the (Il)Logics of Adolescence: Examining How Undergraduates in an LGBTQ+ Young Adult Literature Course Read Queer Youth
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Kyle P. Smith; Jon M. Wargo – Reading Research Quarterly, 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 as the (il)logics of adolescence shaped who and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Students, LGBTQ People, Adolescent Literature