Tori Yama Literary Journal December 2012 issue
Welcome to Tori Yama Literary Journal, a journal for exploring elements of the literary world in relation to their uses in the classroom or beyond the text itself. Our new issue for December of 2012 takes a look at young adult fantasy literature and the representation of diversity within this genre.
Although there is great potential to explore this topic in webcomics, graphic novels, comics, and manga, the journal this month focuses on novels. If all of the possible mediums were focused on, this journal might never have been completed for a December release!
There are many great young adult novels out there that represent diversity in various forms, but what about genre fiction?
How does the young adult fantasy genre represent diversity?
This month’s issue features articles and essays written by Carla Vangrove, in which she explores these and other questions related to fantasy and diversity in young adult literature.
Carla Vangrove is an English Education and Creative Writing major and Japanese minor at Colorado State University. In the future, she hopes to become a teacher, a writer, and a translator of Japanese media into English.
Last issue featured pieces written by Carla Vangrove about webcomics as a viable instrument to use in the classroom.
