Melancholia and maturation :: the use of trauma in American children's literature /

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. Tr...

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1. Verfasser: Tribunella, Eric L.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2010.
Ausgabe:1st ed.
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Zusammenfassung: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 as a fundame.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxxvii, 161 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781572336896
1572336897