LEADER 03197nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910791674303321 005 20230725015913.0 010 $a1-283-09842-3 010 $a9786613098429 010 $a1-57233-689-7 035 $a(CKB)2560000000055006 035 $a(EBL)668942 035 $a(OCoLC)699521261 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000471270 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11346547 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000471270 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10417592 035 $a(PQKB)10986158 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC668942 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19673 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL668942 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10437920 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL309842 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000055006 100 $a20090323d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMelancholia and maturation$b[electronic resource] $ethe use of trauma in American children's literature /$fEric L. Tribunella 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aKnoxville $cUniversity of Tennessee Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (201 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-57233-681-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aLosing 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. 330 $a"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 606 $aBildungsromans, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aChildren's stories, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLoss (Psychology) in literature 606 $aMaturation (Psychology) in literature 606 $aPsychic trauma in literature 606 $aYoung adult fiction, American$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aBildungsromans, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aChildren's stories, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLoss (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aMaturation (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aPsychic trauma in literature. 615 0$aYoung adult fiction, American$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a813/.009353 700 $aTribunella$b Eric L$01561054 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791674303321 996 $aMelancholia and maturation$93827461 997 $aUNINA