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Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,786
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Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature (Paperback): Tison Pugh

Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature (Paperback)

Tison Pugh

Series: Children's Literature and Culture

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Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children s Literature examines distinguished classics of children s literature both old and new including L. Frank Baum s Oz books, Laura Ingalls Wilder s Little House series, J. K. Rowling s Harry Potter novels, Lemony Snicket s A Series of Unfortunate Events, and Stephenie Meyer s Twilight series to explore the queer tensions between innocence and heterosexuality within their pages. Pugh argues that children cannot retain their innocence of sexuality while learning about normative heterosexuality, yet this inherent paradox runs throughout many classic narratives of literature for young readers. Children s literature typically endorses heterosexuality through its invisible presence as the de facto sexual identity of countless protagonists and their families, yet heterosexuality s ubiquity is counterbalanced by its occlusion when authors shield their readers from forthright considerations of one of humanity s most basic and primal instincts.

The book demonstrates that tensions between innocence and sexuality render much of children s literature queer, especially when these texts disavow sexuality through celebrations of innocence. In this original study, Pugh develops interpretations of sexuality that few critics have yet ventured, paving the way for future scholarly engagement with larger questions about the ideological role of children's literature and representations of children's sexuality.

Tison Pugh is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of Queering Medieval Genres and Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature and has published on children s literature in such journals as Children s Literature, The Lion and the Unicorn, and Marvels and Tales."

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
Release date: July 2014
First published: 2011
Authors: Tison Pugh
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-79583-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Children's literature studies
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
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LSN: 1-138-79583-6
Barcode: 9781138795839

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