Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent LiteratureUniversity of Iowa Press, 2000 - 207 頁 The Young Adult novel is ordinarily characterized as a coming-of-age story, in which the narrative revolves around the individual growth and maturation of a character, but Roberta Trites expands this notion by chronicling the dynamics of power and repression that weave their way through YA books. Characters in these novels must learn to negotiate the levels of power that exist in the myriad social institutions within which they function, including family, church, government, and school. Trites argues that the development of the genre over the past thirty years is an outgrowth of postmodernism, since YA novels are, by definition, texts that interrogate the social construction of individuals. Drawing on such nineteenth-century precursors as Little Women and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Disturbing the Universe demonstrates how important it is to employ poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing adolescent literature, both in critical studies and in the classroom. Among the twentieth-century authors discussed are Blume, Hamilton, Hinton, Le Guin, L'Engle, and Zindel. Trites' work has applications for a broad range of readers, including scholars of children's literature and theorists of post-modernity as well as librarians and secondary-school teachers. Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature by Roberta Seelinger Trites is the winner of the 2002 Children's Literature Association's Book Award. The award is given annually in order to promote and recognize outstanding contributions to children's literature, history, scholarship, and criticisim; it is one of the highest academic honors that can accrue to an author of children's literary criticism. |
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... Brother Leon and Archie , leader of The Vigils , struggle to assert their power over one another , the reader gradu- ally begins to realize that it does not matter which of them con- trols the school , since they are two sides of the ...
... brother because he knows no other way to control him . Ponyboy , interpreting this abusiveness as a lack of love , rebels against his brother's overstated authority . Pony cannot grow to maturity until he can understand his brother's ...
... brother , Jack Sun Run Adams , are the children of an African American mother and a Native American father . Arilla and her brother are engaged in a continual power struggle . She spends most of her life thinking her brother wishes her ...
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Maybe that is writing changing things around and disguising the forreal | 54 |
Chapter 4 | 84 |
Chapter 5 | 117 |
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