LEADER 04034nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910826692303321 005 20230803030608.0 010 $a1-62103-960-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000391130 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000206354 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1113455 035 $a(OCoLC)824610061 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse25734 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1113455 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10734739 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL505037 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000391130 100 $a20130109d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aReading like a girl$b[electronic resource] $enarrative intimacy in contemporary American young adult literature /$fSara K. Day 210 $aJackson $cUniversity Press of Mississippi$d2013 215 $a1 online resource 225 0$aChildren's literature association series 311 $a1-61703-811-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"By examining the novels of critically and commercially successful authors such as Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You), Stephenie Meyer (the Twilight series), and Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak), Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature explores the use of narrative intimacy as a means of reflecting and reinforcing larger, often contradictory, cultural expectations regarding adolescent women, interpersonal relationships, and intimacy. Reading Like a Girl explains the construction of narrator-reader relationships in recent American novels written about adolescent women and marketed to adolescent women. Sara K. Day explains, though, that such levels of imagined friendship lead to contradictory cultural expectations for the young women so deeply obsessed with reading these novels. Day coins the term "narrative intimacy" to refer to the implicit relationship between narrator and reader that depends on an imaginary disclosure and trust between the story's narrator and the reader. Through critical examination, the inherent contradictions between this enclosed, imagined relationship and the real expectations for adolescent women's relations prove to be problematic. In many novels for young women, adolescent female narrators construct conceptions of the adolescent woman reader, constructions that allow the narrator to understand the reader as a confidant, a safe and appropriate location for disclosure. At the same time, such novels offer frequent warnings against the sort of unfettered confession the narrators perform. Friendships are marked as potential sites of betrayal and rejection. Romantic relationships are presented as inherently threatening to physical and emotional health. And so, the narrator turns to the reader for an ally who cannot judge. The reader, in turn, may come to depend upon narrative intimacy in order to vicariously explore her own understanding of human expression and bonds"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aChildren's Literature Association series. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIntimacy (Psychology) in literature 606 $aYoung adult literature, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTeenage girls$xBooks and reading$zUnited States 606 $aAdolescence in literature 606 $aGirls in literature 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aIntimacy (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aYoung adult literature, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTeenage girls$xBooks and reading 615 0$aAdolescence in literature. 615 0$aGirls in literature. 676 $a813/.60992837 686 $aLIT009000$aLIT004290$2bisacsh 700 $aDay$b Sara K$01695542 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826692303321 996 $aReading like a girl$94074877 997 $aUNINA