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Death, gender, and sexuality in contemporary adolescent literature [[electronic resource] /] / Kathryn James



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Autore: James Kathryn Visualizza persona
Titolo: Death, gender, and sexuality in contemporary adolescent literature [[electronic resource] /] / Kathryn James Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Routledge, 2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (221 p.)
Disciplina: 810.9/9282
810.99282
Soggetto topico: Young adult literature, American - History and criticism
Death in literature
Sex role in literature
Sex in literature
Teenagers - Books and reading
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Knowledge 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 deat
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ISBN: 1-135-89119-2
1-281-90095-8
9786611900953
0-203-88515-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910782348103321
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Serie: Children's literature and culture ; ; 61.