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More than half a century has passed since those iconic words were printed in J.D. Salinger’s (1951) Catcher in the Rye. In the context of reading that sentence as part of my 11th grade literature required reading, the statement gelled in my understanding of how literature functioned.
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Garcia, A. (2013). Grassroots YA. In: Critical Foundations in Young Adult Literature. Critical Literacy Teaching Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-398-0_7
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