TY - BOOK AU - Rountree,Wendy ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The boys club: male protagonists in contemporary African American young adult literature T2 - Masculinity studies: literary and cultural representations, AV - PS153.N5 R686 2011eb U1 - 813/.54099283608996073 22 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Peter Lang KW - American literature KW - African American authors KW - History and criticism KW - Young adult literature, American KW - Protagonists (Persons) in literature KW - Boys in literature KW - African American men in literature KW - African American young adults KW - Books and reading KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10551945 ER -