03231nam 2200697Ia 450 991045806800332120200520144314.01-283-09842-397866130984291-57233-689-7(CKB)2560000000055006(EBL)668942(OCoLC)699521261(SSID)ssj0000471270(PQKBManifestationID)11346547(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000471270(PQKBWorkID)10417592(PQKB)10986158(MiAaPQ)EBC668942(MdBmJHUP)muse19673(Au-PeEL)EBL668942(CaPaEBR)ebr10437920(CaONFJC)MIL309842(EXLCZ)99256000000005500620090323d2010 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMelancholia and maturation[electronic resource] the use of trauma in American children's literature /Eric L. Tribunella1st ed.Knoxville University of Tennessee Pressc20101 online resource (201 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-57233-681-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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 aBildungsromans, AmericanHistory and criticismChildren's stories, AmericanHistory and criticismLoss (Psychology) in literatureMaturation (Psychology) in literaturePsychic trauma in literatureYoung adult fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismElectronic books.Bildungsromans, AmericanHistory and criticism.Children's stories, AmericanHistory and criticism.Loss (Psychology) in literature.Maturation (Psychology) in literature.Psychic trauma in literature.Young adult fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism.813/.009353Tribunella Eric L1045885MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458068003321Melancholia and maturation2472479UNINA