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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791674303321

Autore

Tribunella Eric L

Titolo

Melancholia and maturation [[electronic resource] ] : the use of trauma in American children's literature / / Eric L. Tribunella

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2010

ISBN

1-283-09842-3

9786613098429

1-57233-689-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

813/.009353

Soggetti

Bildungsromans, American - History and criticism

Children's stories, American - History and criticism

Loss (Psychology) in literature

Maturation (Psychology) in literature

Psychic trauma in literature

Young adult fiction, American - History and criticism

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

Losing and using queer youth -- A boy and his dog -- Knowing, unknowing, and the achievement of young adulthood -- Melancholic development and Revolutionary War fiction for children -- Melancholic sacrifice and the Holocaust in American children's culture -- Coda: physical trauma, childhood embodiment, and children's literature.

Sommario/riassunto

"Coming of age" in children's fiction often means achieving maturity through the experience of trauma. In classics ranging from Old Yeller to The Outsiders, a narrative of psychological pain defies expectations of childhood as a time of innocence and play. In this provocative new book, Eric L. Tribunella explores why trauma, especially the loss of a loved object, occurs in some of the most popular and critically acclaimed twentieth-century American fiction for children.Tribunella draws on queer theory and feminist revisions of Freud's notion of melancholia, which is described a