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Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction
- Reframing Myths of Adolescent Girlhood
Engelsk Hardback
Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction
- Reframing Myths of Adolescent Girlhood
Engelsk Hardback

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The heroic romance is one of the West’s most enduring narratives, found everywhere, from religion and myth to blockbuster films and young adult literature. Within this story, adolescent girls are not, and cannot be, the heroes. They are, at best, the hero’s bride, a prize he wins for slaying monsters. Crucially, although the girl’s exclusion from heroic selfhood affects all girls, it does not do so equally— whiteness and able-bodiedness are taken as markers of heightened, fantasy femininity.

Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction explores how the young female-heroes of mythopoeic YA, a Tolkienian-inspired genre drawing on myth’s world-creating power and YA’s liminal potential, disrupt the conventional heroic narrative. These heroes, such as Tamora Pierce''s Alanna the Lioness, Daine the Wildmage, and Marissa Meyer''s Cinder and Iko, offer a model of being-hero, an embodied way of living and being in this world that disrupts the typical hero’s violent hierarchy, isolating individuality, and erasure of difference. In doing so, they push the boundaries of what it means to be a hero, a girl, and even human.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9781350119338
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1350119334
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
23 feb 2023
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
224mm
Højde:
146mm
Forlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato:
23 feb 2023
Forfatter(e):
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