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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452969103321

Autore

James Kathryn

Titolo

Death, gender, and sexuality in contemporary adolescent literature [[electronic resource] /] / Kathryn James

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-135-89119-2

1-281-90095-8

9786611900953

0-203-88515-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Collana

Children's literature and culture ; ; 61

Disciplina

810.9/9282

810.99282

Soggetti

Young adult literature, American - History and criticism

Death in literature

Sex role in literature

Sex in literature

Teenagers - Books and reading

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction Beginning with Endings: Death in Children's Literature; Chapter One Points of Departure: Death, Culture, Representation; Chapter Two Matilda's Last Dance: Death and Historical Fiction; Chapter Three Verisimilitude: Representing Death "In the Real"; Chapter Four Beyond Consensus Reality: Death and Fantasy Fiction; Chapter Five Imagined Futures: Death and the Post-Disaster Novel; Conclusion Mapping the Landscape: The Unknown Country; NOTES; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Knowledge about carnality and its limits provides the agenda for much of the fiction written for adolescent readers today, yet there exists little critical engagement with the ways in which it has been represented in the young adult novel in either discursive, ideological, or rhetorical



forms. Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature is a pioneering study that addresses these methodological and contextual gaps. Focusing on texts produced since the late-1980s, and drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives, Kathryn James shows how representations of deat