Description: One of the first critical volumes to examine how young adult literature reproduces but also resists neoliberalism
Brief description: Sean P. Connors is associate professor of English education at University of Arkansas. His scholarship and teaching focuses on the application of diverse critical perspectives to young adult literature. He is editor of The Politics of Panem: Challenging Genres and coeditor of Teaching Girls on Fire: Essays on Dystopian Young Adult Literature in the Classroom.
Review Quotes: Neoliberalism and Young Adult Fiction is groundbreaking--and potentially controversial--for illuminating the ways that YA literature is often complicit in the exploitation and co-opting of young people's minds.--Megan L. Musgrave, author of Digital Citizenship in Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Literature: Imaginary Activism