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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... thinks that Buddy should turn Junior over to the au- thorities , but Buddy thinks that to do so would make Junior cra- zier , so Buddy decides instead to take his friend to the " planet ” in the basement of an abandoned building where ...
... think , to see your own face like that , caught by someone else , with all your feelings showing in it " ( 48 ) . As ... thinks I am , and the one he makes use of to exhibit his art ” ( 13 ) . In identifying four positions on a continuum ...
... thinks of Miss Blue , she thinks of the por- trait , feels grief , and fears for her teacher's vulnerability and pos- sible death ( 169 ) . A recursively used picture that becomes a mark of Flanders's maturity has resulted from Miss ...
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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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