Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent LiteratureUniversity of Iowa Press, 2000 - 207 pàgines The Young Adult novel is ordinarily characterized as a coming-of-age story, in which the narrative revolves around the individual growth and maturation of a character, but Roberta Trites expands this notion by chronicling the dynamics of power and repression that weave their way through YA books. Characters in these novels must learn to negotiate the levels of power that exist in the myriad social institutions within which they function, including family, church, government, and school. Trites argues that the development of the genre over the past thirty years is an outgrowth of postmodernism, since YA novels are, by definition, texts that interrogate the social construction of individuals. Drawing on such nineteenth-century precursors as Little Women and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Disturbing the Universe demonstrates how important it is to employ poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing adolescent literature, both in critical studies and in the classroom. Among the twentieth-century authors discussed are Blume, Hamilton, Hinton, Le Guin, L'Engle, and Zindel. Trites' work has applications for a broad range of readers, including scholars of children's literature and theorists of post-modernity as well as librarians and secondary-school teachers. Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature by Roberta Seelinger Trites is the winner of the 2002 Children's Literature Association's Book Award. The award is given annually in order to promote and recognize outstanding contributions to children's literature, history, scholarship, and criticisim; it is one of the highest academic honors that can accrue to an author of children's literary criticism. |
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... give rise to multiple conflicts between adolescents and authority , another arena of the literature with in- finite possibilities . Two types of authority are especially pertinent to YA novels : authority within the text and the ...
... give the ruler power . Modifying Rousseau's concept of the social contract , Foucault argues that " power has its principle not so much in a person as . . . in an arrangement whose internal mechanisms produce the relation in which ...
... give history lessons when I teach it . Even explaining the Great Depression helps students have ( slightly ) more ... gives an intellectual history of one of the first novels actually written for Young Adults , Mary Wollstonecraft's ...
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Maybe that is writing changing things around and disguising the forreal | 54 |
Chapter 4 | 84 |
Chapter 5 | 117 |
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Bridges for the Young: The Fiction of Katherine Paterson M. Sarah Smedman,Joel Chaston Visualització de fragments - 2003 |