03351nam 2200709Ia 450 991045296910332120200520144314.01-135-89119-21-281-90095-897866119009530-203-88515-5(CKB)1000000000549496(EBL)370986(OCoLC)476207072(SSID)ssj0000135661(PQKBManifestationID)11139163(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000135661(PQKBWorkID)10058800(PQKB)11618120(MiAaPQ)EBC370986(Au-PeEL)EBL370986(CaPaEBR)ebr10267209(CaONFJC)MIL190095(EXLCZ)99100000000054949620080613d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDeath, gender, and sexuality in contemporary adolescent literature[electronic resource] /Kathryn JamesNew York Routledge20091 online resource (221 p.)Children's literature and culture ;61Description based upon print version of record.0-415-88856-5 0-415-96493-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexKnowledge 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 deatChildren's literature and culture ;61.Young adult literature, AmericanHistory and criticismDeath in literatureSex role in literatureSex in literatureTeenagersBooks and readingElectronic books.Young adult literature, AmericanHistory and criticism.Death in literature.Sex role in literature.Sex in literature.TeenagersBooks and reading.810.9/9282810.99282James Kathryn950209MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452969103321Death, gender, and sexuality in contemporary adolescent literature2148234UNINA