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With the tomboy figure currently operating in a liminal space
between extinction and resurgence, Reclaiming the Tomboy: The Body,
Identity, and Representation is an unabashed celebration of her
rebellious, independent, and pioneering spirit. This collection
examines the tomboy as she appears throughout history, in the arts
and in real-life. It also addresses how she has changed over the
centuries, adapting to the world around her and breaking new
boundaries in new ways (sometimes with a "simple" selfie). While
this collection addresses the claim of the tomboy as being
antiquated or even "problematic," it more vigorously offers
examples of where she is thriving and benefiting from her tomboy
identity. Ultimately, this book underscores the tomboy's legacy as
well as why she is still relevant, if not needed, today.
If there is one trend in children's and YA literature that seems to
be enjoying a steady rise in popularity, it is the expansion of the
YA dystopian genre. While the genre has been lauded for its
potential to expand horizons, promote critical thinking, and foster
social awareness and activism, it has also come under scrutiny for
its promotion of specific ideologies and its often sensationalist
approach to real-world problems. In an examination of six YA
dystopian texts spanning more than twenty years of development of
the genre, this book explores the way in which posthumanist
ideologies in particular are deployed or resisted in these texts as
a means of making sense of the specific challenges which young
people confront in the twenty-first century.
If there is one trend in children's and YA literature that seems to
be enjoying a steady rise in popularity, it is the expansion of the
YA dystopian genre. While the genre has been lauded for its
potential to expand horizons, promote critical thinking, and foster
social awareness and activism, it has also come under scrutiny for
its promotion of specific ideologies and its often sensationalist
approach to real-world problems. In an examination of six YA
dystopian texts spanning more than twenty years of development of
the genre, this book explores the way in which posthumanist
ideologies in particular are deployed or resisted in these texts as
a means of making sense of the specific challenges which young
people confront in the twenty-first century.
Contributions by Megan De Roover, Jennifer Harrison, Sarah Jackson,
Zoe Jaques, Nada Kujund?Yi?c, Ivana Milkovi?c, Niall Nance-Carroll,
Perry Nodelman, David Rudd, Jonathan Chun Ngai Tsang, Nicholas
Tucker, Donna Varga, and Tim Wadham One hundred years ago,
disparate events culminated in one of the most momentous happenings
in the history of children's literature. Christopher Robin Milne
was born to A. A. Milne and his wife; Edward Bear, a lovable
stuffed toy, arrived on the market; and a living, young bear named
Winnie settled in at the London Zoo. The collaboration originally
begun by the Milnes, the Shepards, Winnie herself, and the many
toys and personalities who fed into the Pooh legend continued to
evolve throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to
become a global phenomenon. Yet even a brief examination of this
sensation reveals that Pooh and his adventures were from the onset
marked by a rich complexity behind a seeming simplicity and
innocence. This volume, after a decades-long lull in concentrated
Pooh scholarship, seeks to highlight the plurality of perspectives,
modes, and interpretations these tales afford, especially after the
Disney Corporation scooped its paws into the honeypot in the 1950s.
Positioning Pooh: Edward Bear after One Hundred Years argues the
doings of Pooh remain relevant for readers in a posthuman,
information-centric, media-saturated, globalized age. Pooh's forays
destabilize social certainties on all levels-linguistic,
ontological, legal, narrative, political, and so on. Through essays
that focus on geography, language, narrative, characterization,
history, politics, economics, and a host of other social and
cultural phenomena, contributors to this volume explore how the
stories open up discourses about identity, ethics, social
relations, and notions of belonging. This first volume to offer
multiple perspectives from multiple authors on the Winnie-the-Pooh
books in a single collection focuses on and develops approaches
that bring this classic of children's literature into the current
era. Essays included not only are of relevance to scholars with an
interest in Pooh, Milne, and the ""golden age"" of children's
literature, but also showcase the development of children's
literature scholarship in step with exciting modern developments in
literary theory.
Contributions by Megan De Roover, Jennifer Harrison, Sarah Jackson,
Zoe Jaques, Nada Kujund?Yi?c, Ivana Milkovi?c, Niall Nance-Carroll,
Perry Nodelman, David Rudd, Jonathan Chun Ngai Tsang, Nicholas
Tucker, Donna Varga, and Tim Wadham One hundred years ago,
disparate events culminated in one of the most momentous happenings
in the history of children's literature. Christopher Robin Milne
was born to A. A. Milne and his wife; Edward Bear, a lovable
stuffed toy, arrived on the market; and a living, young bear named
Winnie settled in at the London Zoo. The collaboration originally
begun by the Milnes, the Shepards, Winnie herself, and the many
toys and personalities who fed into the Pooh legend continued to
evolve throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to
become a global phenomenon. Yet even a brief examination of this
sensation reveals that Pooh and his adventures were from the onset
marked by a rich complexity behind a seeming simplicity and
innocence. This volume, after a decades-long lull in concentrated
Pooh scholarship, seeks to highlight the plurality of perspectives,
modes, and interpretations these tales afford, especially after the
Disney Corporation scooped its paws into the honeypot in the 1950s.
Positioning Pooh: Edward Bear after One Hundred Years argues the
doings of Pooh remain relevant for readers in a posthuman,
information-centric, media-saturated, globalized age. Pooh's forays
destabilize social certainties on all levels-linguistic,
ontological, legal, narrative, political, and so on. Through essays
that focus on geography, language, narrative, characterization,
history, politics, economics, and a host of other social and
cultural phenomena, contributors to this volume explore how the
stories open up discourses about identity, ethics, social
relations, and notions of belonging. This first volume to offer
multiple perspectives from multiple authors on the Winnie-the-Pooh
books in a single collection focuses on and develops approaches
that bring this classic of children's literature into the current
era. Essays included not only are of relevance to scholars with an
interest in Pooh, Milne, and the ""golden age"" of children's
literature, but also showcase the development of children's
literature scholarship in step with exciting modern developments in
literary theory.
You are invited to take a journey, along with the author, to her
hometown in the American South, a unique culture of relative safety
within a sheltered small town in the mid-twentieth century. You
will discover a time when sorority girls were virgins, baton
twirlers mattered, and Elvis Presley's hips were the wildest thing
on the block.
Against the backdrop of groundbreaking musical environments from
Memphis, Tennessee to the Mississippi Delta, you will share stories
that follow Elvis and his rise to fame through the eyes of his
Graceland neighbors in the small suburb of Whitehaven. The author's
mother, a young girl who was as much a celebrity in this small town
as Elvis, reveals never-before-shared photographs and stories that
chronicle a town, an extraordinary man, and a time forever lost to
history, each on the brink of explosion and change.
You are invited to take a journey, along with the author, to her
hometown in the American South, a unique culture of relative safety
within a sheltered small town in the mid-twentieth century. You
will discover a time when sorority girls were virgins, baton
twirlers mattered, and Elvis Presley's hips were the wildest thing
on the block.
Against the backdrop of groundbreaking musical environments from
Memphis, Tennessee to the Mississippi Delta, you will share stories
that follow Elvis and his rise to fame through the eyes of his
Graceland neighbors in the small suburb of Whitehaven. The author's
mother, a young girl who was as much a celebrity in this small town
as Elvis, reveals never-before-shared photographs and stories that
chronicle a town, an extraordinary man, and a time forever lost to
history, each on the brink of explosion and change.
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