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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... seems more appropriate to use the term Entwicklungsroman , the novel of mere growth , mere physical passage from one age to the other without psychological development , to describe most " nov- els of female development ; “ it seems ...
... seems to be the chief obstacle in Junior's relationship with his mother because Mrs. Brown seems incapable of happiness with her husband gone . As a result of Junior's misguided goals for happiness , he seems to have no existence of his ...
... seem more empowered than they did when they still denied death's power , as Holden Caul- field's narrative demonstrates . It seems that death has far more power over the adolescent imagination than any human institu- tion possibly could ...
Continguts
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 |