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Coming of Age in a Divided City: Cultural Hybridity and Ethnic Injustice in Sandra Cisneros and Veronica Roth

2016; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 44; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/chl.2016.0022

1543-3374

Suzanne Manizza Roszak,

Modern American Literature Studies

In YA texts by Sandra Cisneros and Veronica Roth, the social injustice of segregation and the pressure to forsake hybrid identities shape the coming-of-age process. While both novels encourage teens to resist this pressure, Roth’s avoids directly acknowledging issues of ethnicity and racism, missing important opportunities for witnessing and allyship.