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Battling Girlhood: Sympathy, Social Justice, and the Tomboy Figure in American Literature de Kristen B. Proehl

Battling Girlhood: Sympathy, Social Justice, and the Tomboy Figure in American Literature: Children's Literature and Culture

Autor Kristen B. Proehl
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2020
From Jo March of Little Women (1868) to Katniss Everdeen of The Hunger Games (2008), the American tomboy figure has evolved into an icon of modern girlhood and symbol of female empowerment. Battling Girlhood: Sympathy, Social Justice, and the Tomboy Figure in American Literature traces the development of the tomboy figure from its origins in nineteenth-century sentimental novels to twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and film.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367666200
ISBN-10: 0367666200
Pagini: 174
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Children's Literature and Culture

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Acknowledgements


Introduction


1 Tomboys in Rag Alley: Understanding Cap Black and the Sentimental Tradition


2 Teaching Jo: Philanthropy, Education, and the Tomboy Trajectory in Louisa May Alcott’s Trilogy


3 Tomboys on the Prairie: Violence, Discipline, and Community in the Little House Series


4 Queer Sentiments: Tomboyism and Familial Belonging in Carson McCullers’s The Member of the Wedding


5 Scout as Social Critic: Sympathetic Alliances in To Kill a Mockingbird


6 Beasts of the Southern Wild: Queer Childhood, Race, and the Dystopian South




Coda


Works Cited


Index

Notă biografică

Kristen Proehl is an assistant professor of English at SUNY-Brockport, where she teaches courses in children’s and young adult literature. Her work has appeared in Jeunesse, The Journal of Lesbian Studies, and several essay collections. She is currently working on a second book project on queer friendship in adolescent literature.

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The American tomboy figure has evolved into an icon of modern girlhood and symbol of female empowerment. Battling Girlhood traces the development of the tomboy figure from its origins in nineteenth-century sentimental novels to twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and film.