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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... issues of power . Although the primary purpose of the adolescent novel may appear to be a depiction of growth , growth in this genre is inevitably represented as being linked to what the adolescent has learned about power . Without ...
... issues of subjec- tivity and objectivity in three YA novels : Lois Lowry's A Summer to Die ( 1977 ) , Francesca Lia ... issue of both theme and narrative structure . In other words , the relation- ship between the protagonist's increased ...
... issues of subjectivity and objectivity to issues of maturity by means of photography metaphors . A postmodern fairy tale like its predecessor Weetzie Bat , Witch Baby is the story of the eponymous Death and Resolution : 129.
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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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Out of this World: Why Literature Matters to Girls Holly Virginia Blackford Previsualització limitada - 2004 |
Bridges for the Young: The Fiction of Katherine Paterson M. Sarah Smedman,Joel Chaston Visualització de fragments - 2003 |