Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent LiteratureUniversity of Iowa Press, 1 d’abr. 1998 - 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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... calls the ''contract-oppression schema'' (Power 92). It is based on the belief that all individuals hold a certain amount of power that they voluntarily relinquish to exist un- der the rule of a governing body (88). The other he calls ...
... calls the genre (58) — do not necessarily grow. And some novels like Avi's Nothing but the Truth (1991) and Cormier's The Chocolate War problematize the issue of growth by leaving the reader wondering who, if anyone, has grown. But the ...
... call themselves collectively; her twin brothers, Thomas and Levi, and their friend Dorian work with her to create this telepathic unit. They call the dystopia of Earth's future ''Dustland.'' The primitive cultures they find there fight ...
... calls itself ''Mal.'' Mal is a Lucifer figure ejected from paradise who takes it upon itself to banish any nonconformist creature from the domity into the hell of Dust- land: ''Mal must have order and sameness'' (124). Justice and the ...
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Chapter 3 Maybe that is writing changing things around and disguising the forreal the paradox of authority in adolescent literature | 54 |
Chapter 4 All of a sudden I came sex and power in adolescent novels | 84 |
Chapter 5 When I can control the focus death and narrative resolution in adolescent literature | 117 |
Chapter 6 Conclusion the poststructural pedagogy of adolescent literature | 142 |
Notes | 153 |
Bibliography | 163 |
Index | 177 |
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