02489nam a2200409 a 4500 ebr10551945 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 110315s2011 nyu sb 001 0 eng d 2011009451 9781433105746 (hardcover alk. paper) 1433105748 (hardcover alk. paper) 9781453907801 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)793207960 PS153.N5 R686 2011eb 813/.54099283608996073 22 Rountree, Wendy, 1972- The boys club [electronic resource] : male protagonists in contemporary African American young adult literature / Wendy Rountree. New York : Peter Lang, c2011. 134 p. Masculinity studies: literary and cultural representations, 2161-2692 ; v. 1 Includes bibliographical references and index. Defining manhood: the function of violence in Kenji Jasper's Dark and Sharon G. Flake's Bang! -- Where have all the fathers gone?: searching for identity in Jacqueline Woodson's Miracle's Boys -- It's all in the way you play the game: African American boys and basketball in William Mcdaniels' Abdul and the designer tennis shoes and Walter Dean Myers' Game -- Are you gonna teach me something?: African American boys and the classroom in Candy Dawson Boyd's Chevrolet Saturdays -- Depicting male/female relationships in Walter Dean Myers' Motown and Didi and Jacqueline Woodson's If you come softly -- Looking back, looking forward: the role of the past in Christopher Paul Curtis' Bud, not buddy and Kekla Magoon's The rock and the river. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. American literature African American authors History and criticism. Young adult literature, American History and criticism. Protagonists (Persons) in literature. Boys in literature. African American men in literature. African American young adults Books and reading. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Masculinity studies ; v. 1. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10551945 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 198321 198321