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Gender(ed) Identities - Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children's and Young Adult Literature (Hardcover)
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Gender(ed) Identities - Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children's and Young Adult Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
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This volume brings together diverse, cross-disciplinary scholarly
voices to examine gender construction in children's and young adult
literature. It complements and updates the scholarship in the field
by creating a rich, cohesive examination of core questions around
gender and sexuality in classic and contemporary texts. By
providing an expansive treatment of gender and sexuality across
genres, eras, and national literature, the collection explores how
readers encounter unorthodox as well as traditional notions of
gender. It begins with essays exploring how children's and YA
literature construct communities formed by gender, ethnicity,
sexuality, and in face-to-face and virtual spaces. Section II's
central focus is how gendered identities are formed, unpacking how
texts for young readers ranging from Amish youth periodicals to the
blockbuster Divergent series trace, reproduce, and shape gendered
identity socialization. In section III, the essential literary
function of translating trauma into narrative is addressed in
classics like Anne of Green Gables and Pollyanna, as well as more
recent works. Section IV's focus on sexuality and romance
encompasses fiction and nonfiction works, examining how children's
and young adult literature can serve as a regressive, progressive,
and transgressive site for construction meaning about sex and
romance. Last, Section IV offers new readings of paratextual
features in literature for children -- from the classic tale of
Cinderella to contemporary illustrated novels. The key achievement
of this volume is providing an updated range of multidisciplinary
and methodologically diverse analyses of critically and
commercially successful texts, contributing to the scholarship on
children's and YA literature; gender, sexuality, and women's
studies; and a range of other disciplines.
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