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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
232
Utgivningsdatum
2013-05-08
Förlag
McFarland & Co Inc
Medarbetare
Palumbo, Donald E. (ed.), Sullivan Iii, C. W. (ed.)
Illustrationer
notes, bibliography, index
Dimensioner
226 x 150 x 18 mm
Vikt
318 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
Paperback
ISBN
9780786461363

Girls Transforming

Invisibility and Age-Shifting in Children's Fantasy Fiction Since the 1970s

av Sanna Lehtonen, Donald E Palumbo, C W Sullivan Iii
Häftad,  Engelska, 2013-05-08
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This book explores representations of girlhood and young womanhood in recent English language children's fantasy by focusing on two fantastic body transformation types: invisibility and age-shifting. Drawing on recent feminist and queer theory, the study discusses the tropes of invisibility and age-shifting as narrative devices representing gendered experiences. The transformations offer various perspectives on a girl's changing body and identity and provide links between real-life and fantastic discourses of gender, power, invisibility and aging. The main focus is on English-language fantasy published since the 1970s but the motifs of invisibility and age-shifting in earlier tales and children's books is reviewed; this is the first study of children's fantasy literature that considers these tropes at length. Novels discussed are from both critically acclaimed authors and the less well known. Most of the novels depicting invisible or age-shifting girls are neither thoroughly conventional nor radically subversive but present a range of styles. In terms of gender, children's fantasy novels can be more complex than they are often interpreted to be.
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Sanna Lehtonen, Donald E Palumbo, C W Sullivan Iii

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Sanna Lehtonen is a university lecturer in Applied Linguistics in the Department of Languages, University of Jyvskyl, Finland, where she teaches in the area of discourse studies with a particular focus on gender and new media.

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Table of Contents Preface Introduction 1.Magic Cloaks and Potions: Motifs and Tropes of Invisibility and AgeShifting 2.Witch Power: Invisibility, Age-Shifting and Empowerment 3.Deconstructing and Reconstructing Female Subjectivity: Magic Transformation and Girls Coming of Age 4.Discourses of Gender, Power and Desire: Invisibility and Female Gaze 5.Crossing Borders: Queer Aging Conclusion Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

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