Melancholia and maturation [[electronic resource] ] : the use of trauma in American children's literature / / Eric L. Tribunella

• Autore: Tribunella Eric L
• Pubblicazione: Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.009353
• Soggetto topico: Bildungsromans, American - History and criticism; Children's stories, American - History and criticism; Loss (Psychology) in literature; Maturation (Psychology) in literature; Psychic trauma in literature; Young adult fiction, American - History and criticism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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
• Titolo autorizzato: Melancholia and maturation
• ISBN: 1-283-09842-3; 9786613098429; 1-57233-689-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791674303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II