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Author | : Laura Mattoon D'Amore |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2021-04-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1793630615 |
This interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between violence, empowerment, and the teenage super/heroine in comics and young adult fantasy novels. The author analyzes stories of teenage super/heroines who have experienced trauma, abduction, assault, and sexual violence that has led to a loss of agency, and then tracks the way that their use of violence empowers them to reclaim agency over their lives and bodies. The author identifies these characters as vigilante feminist teenage super/heroines because they become vigilantes in order to protect other girls and young women from violence and create safer communities. The teenage super/heroines examined in this book are characters who have the ability—through super power, or supernatural and magical ability—to fight back against those who seek to cause them harm. They are a product of and a response to both the pervasive culture of violence against girls and women and a system that fails to protect girls and women from harm. While this book is part of a robust intellectual conversation about the role of girls and women in popular literature and culture and about feminist analyses of comics and YA literature, it is unique in its reading of violence as empowerment and in its careful tracing—and naming—of the teenage vigilante super/heroine, a characterization that is hugely popular and deserves this close reading.
Author | : Marco Ramírez Rojas |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2022-07-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1666916889 |
Growing up in Latin America contributes to the growing body of scholarship on the representation of children and minors in contemporary Latin American literature and film. This volume looks closely at the question of agency and the role of minors as active participants in the complex historical processes of the Latin American continent during the 20th and 21st centuries, both as national citizens and as transnational migrants. Questions of gender, migration, violence, post-coloniality, and precarity are central to the analysis of childhood and youth narratives in this collection of essays.
Author | : LuElla D'Amico |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2024-06-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1666946680 |
This book examines the narratives of series heroines that preceded and followed Nancy Drew, each in relation to their social, historical, and economic environments. Covering heroines including Miss Pickerell, Madge Sterling, and Polly the Powers Model, among others, this book illustrates that the recovery of stolen inheritances during the Great Depression serves different social ends than, for example, fighting Germans on an international stage. This book expands scholarship that tends to focus on Nancy Drew by drawing attention to the stories of some other “lost” heroines of twentieth century U.S. series fiction. Organized by time period, the chapters give insight into the cultural landscape that perpetuated the popularity of these heroines in their respective eras, how these series reflected the experiences of readers across the decades, and their continued impact well into the twenty-first century.
Author | : Donna Varga |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2024-08-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1666904856 |
The Coloniality of Animal Monstrous Othering in Children’s Books, Films, and Toys examines how the portrayal of animals as physically distorted, behaviorally depraved, and intellectually defective serves to justify their debasement, violation, and destruction in materials directed toward young consumers. The author argues that this animal monstrous Othering arises from the Eurocentric belief in humans’ natural superiority over animals and the right to categorize animals in accordance with a scale of worthiness that parallels the subjugation of racialized persons. The chapters examine a variety of canonical figures like the dissolute wolf of Red Riding Hood stories and the disfigured titular character of the Wonky Donkey picture book alongside non-canonical animals including reprobate pigs, degenerate sharks, self-centered flamingos, and wicked piranhas. To counter this animal debasement, Varga juxtaposes these readings with an examination of materials that articulate harmonious animal-human interrelationships without dependence on styles of anthropomorphism that diminish animality.
Author | : James M. Curtis |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1666940267 |
This collection approaches the deconstruction of American "childhood" from a wide variety of critical, interdisciplinary lenses and gestures toward the construction of a more realistic, twenty-first century definition of "childhood"--one which is defined by the real-life struggles of childhood and not by romanticized notions of "innocence."
Author | : Debbie Olson |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2023-11-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1666918687 |
This collection examines the child’s role in contemporary post-apocalyptic films and television.. By exploring the function of child characters within a dystopian framework, this volume illustrates how traditional notions of childhood are tethered to sites of adult conflict and disaster, a connection that often works to reaffirm the “rightness” of past systems of social order.
Author | : Laura A. Brown |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2022-05-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1793622086 |
Since Columbine, the topic of school shootings has become ever more prevalent in the media, in research, and in fiction. This book provides analyses of several Young Adult (YA) texts about school shootings and uncovers how the authors represent such violence (and those who perpetrate it) while developing stories that effectively speak to their adolescent readers. Employing Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory, Laura A. Brown examines how the texts frame particular settings and events as important to the development of young people as a way of accounting for the shootings. Likewise, psychologist Peter Langman’s classification of the three populations of school shooters is utilized as a framework to analyze the characterization of fictional shooters in the texts. The author argues that these texts, while not easy to read, are important, as they problematize the ways we think about, approach, and react to school shootings and the students who commit such acts.
Author | : Alison Graham-Bertolini |
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Author | : Suzanne Roberts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2017-03-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781524578268 |
This is a story about a woman named Lilly, whose very name represents a delicate flower. Her voice is sheer magic, and her heart is of pure gold. Everyone who knows Lilly loves her. Lilly is in her second phase in life. Throughout the first phase of her life, all she ever wanted to do was achieve a lifelong dream of becoming a famous folk singer in a band. She has always had a special message to share with others through her voice and those sparkling twinkling big brown eyes--a lot like Bambi. Lilly's vision was that her destiny was and still is about sharing her message of love, but she could not overlook the responsibility of raising two children as a single mother. She decided to put all her dreams on hold until she felt it was the right time once her children could achieve their greatest potential and destiny. Lilly moved to Southeast Florida from California. At that time, the cost of living was too high in California, much less in the State of Florida, which would make life easier for her financially. Economically, the cost of living in the State of Florida was approximately 45 percent less than California, so off she went looking forward to this new chapter in her life.
Author | : Blake Scott Ball |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2021-05-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190090480 |
Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most controversial topics of postwar American culture through the voices of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts gang. In postwar America, there was no newspaper comic strip more recognizable than Charles Schulz's Peanuts. It was everywhere, not just in thousands of daily newspapers. For nearly fifty years, Peanuts was a mainstay of American popular culture in television, movies, and merchandising, from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to the White House to the breakfast table. Most people have come to associate Peanuts with the innocence of childhood, not the social and political turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s. Some have even argued that Peanuts was so beloved because it was apolitical. The truth, as Blake Scott Ball shows, is that Peanuts was very political. Whether it was the battles over the Vietnam War, racial integration, feminism, or the future of a nuclear world, Peanuts was a daily conversation about very real hopes and fears and the political realities of the Cold War world. As thousands of fan letters, interviews, and behind-the-scenes documents reveal, Charles Schulz used his comic strip to project his ideas to a mass audience and comment on the rapidly changing politics of America. Charlie Brown's America covers all of these debates and much more in a historical journey through the tumultuous decades of the Cold War as seen through the eyes of Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Peppermint Patty, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang.