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Melancholia and maturation : the use of trauma in American children's literature /
Coming of age in children's fiction often means achieving maturity through the experience of trauma. In classics ranging from Old Yeller to The Outsiders, a narrative of psychological pain defies expectations of childhood as a time of innocence and play. In this provocative new book, Eric L. Tr...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Knoxville :
University of Tennessee Press,
©2010.
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| Édition: | 1st ed. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | Coming of age in children's fiction often means achieving maturity through the experience of trauma. In classics ranging from Old Yeller to The Outsiders, a narrative of psychological pain defies expectations of childhood as a time of innocence and play. In this provocative new book, Eric L. Tribunella explores why trauma, especially the loss of a loved object, occurs in some of the most popular and critically acclaimed twentieth-century American fiction for children. Tribunella draws on queer theory and feminist revisions of Freud's notion of melancholia, which is described as a fundame. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xxxvii, 161 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781572336896 1572336897 |