{"product_id":"nerds-goths-geeks-and-freaks-trevor-boffone-9781496827463","title":"Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Children's Literature Association's 2022 Edited Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributions by Carolina Alonso, Elena Avil駸, Trevor Boffone, Christi Cook, Ella Diaz, Amanda Ellis, Cristina Herrera, Guadalupe Garc? McCall, Domino P駻ez, Adrianna M. Santos, Roxanne Schroeder-Arce, Lettycia Terrones, and Tim Wadham \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eNerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, the outsider intersects with discussions of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. The essays in this volume address questions of outsider identities and how these identities are shaped by mainstream myths around Chicanx and Latinx young people, particularly with the common stereotype of the struggling, underachieving inner-city teens. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contributors also grapple with how young adults reclaim what it means to be an outsider, weirdo, nerd, or goth, and how the reclamation of these marginalized identities expand conversations around authenticity and narrow understandings of what constitutes cultural identity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Included are analysis of such texts as \u003ci\u003eI Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShadowshaper\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Swimming While Drowning\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. Addressed in the essays are themes of outsiders in Chicanx\/Latinx children's and young adult literature, and the contributors insist that to understand Latinx youth identities it is necessary to shed light on outsiders within an already marginalized ethnic group: nerds, goths, geeks, freaks, and others who might not fit within such Latinx popular cultural paradigms as the chola and cholo, identities that are ever-present in films, television, and the internet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Trevor Boffone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496827465\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496827463\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/18\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2021","brand":"Trevor Boffone","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988875673855,"sku":"9781496827463","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ae0b5b94-d551-4a8b-b63a-e2cbf8400bd3.jpg?v=1683296868","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nerds-goths-geeks-and-freaks-trevor-boffone-9781496827463","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}