exploring real struggles through fictional characters
Richmond, Kia Jane
2019
"Explores how mental illness is portrayed in 21st-century young adult fiction and how selected works can help teachers, librarians, and mental health professionals to more effectively address the needs of students combating mental illness"--Amazon.
Provides critical examination of a range of texts, mostly fiction and film, which can be described as the literature of paranoia, fear, and alienation.
Presents a psychoanalytic study of the works of American author Kurt Vonnegut, examining his writings as tools by which he has attempted to work out the psychologically damaging events of his own life.
