Main Character Energy: Black Girls Getting the Love They Deserve in Elise Bryant’s Young Adult Novels

Hines, Christian M.

Tag: young adult literature

Main Character Energy: Black Girls Getting the Love They Deserve in Elise Bryant’s Young Adult Novels

Published December 17, 2025

This article focuses on Black Young Adult (YA) romance, but I start by thinking about two snapshots of popular culture. Snapshot One is the rise…

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“Leading dual lives, even literarily”: Voice, Visibility, and Ghostwriting in the Sweet Valley Franchise

Published December 17, 2025

Introduction Authorship is a profession in flux. Ranging from the anonymous and attributed, individual and collective, or even mythical writers of ancient and medieval periods,…

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Charm the Boys, Win the Girls: Power Struggles in Mary Stolz’s Cold War Adolescent Girl Romance Novels

Published October 15, 2012

Here was what she’d been waiting for. Not something—someone. Here, as so often in the daydreams, Douglas Eamons was talking to her. Doug . .…

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