Melancholia and maturation: the use of trauma in American children's literature
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1. Verfasser: Tribunella, Eric L. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Knoxville University of Tennessee Press ©2010
Ausgabe:1st ed
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Beschreibung: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
Includes bibliographical references and index
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 & rsquo;s notion of melancholia, which is described as a fundame
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xxxvii, 161 pages)
ISBN:1572336811
1572336897
9781572336810
9781572336896

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