How are girls represented in written and graphic texts, and how do these representations inform our understanding of girlhood? In this volume, contributors examine the girl in the text in order to explore a range of perspectives on girlhood across borders and in relation to their positionality. In literary and transactional texts, girls are presented as heroes who empower themselves and others with lasting effect, as figures of liberating pedagogical practice and educational activism, and as catalysts for discussions of the relationship between desire and ethics. In these varied chapters, a…mehr
How are girls represented in written and graphic texts, and how do these representations inform our understanding of girlhood? In this volume, contributors examine the girl in the text in order to explore a range of perspectives on girlhood across borders and in relation to their positionality. In literary and transactional texts, girls are presented as heroes who empower themselves and others with lasting effect, as figures of liberating pedagogical practice and educational activism, and as catalysts for discussions of the relationship between desire and ethics. In these varied chapters, a new notion of transnationalism emerges, one rooted not only in the process through which borders between nation-states become more porous, but through which cultural and ethnic imperatives become permeable.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Ann Smith has been the managing editor of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal since its inception. Formerly a lecturer in the Department of English, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, where she specialized in literary theory with a particular focus on feminism and queer theory, she is now an adjunct professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University, Montreal. Her publications include Was it Something I Wore? Dress, Identity, Materiality (2012) with Relebohile Moletsane and Claudia Mitchell (eds), and Picturing Research: Drawing as Visual Methodology (2011) with Linda Theron, Claudia Mitchell, and Jean Stuart (eds).
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Introduction: The Girl in the Text: Representations, Positions, and Perspectives Ann Smith Chapter 1. Naughtiest Girls, Go Girls, and Glitterbombs: Exploding Schoolgirl Fictions Lucinda McKnight Chapter 2. "This Is My Story": The Reclaiming of Girls' Education Discourses in Malala Yousafzai's Autobiography Rosie Walters Chapter 3. The Girl: Dead 39 Fiona Nelson Chapter 4. Girl Constructed in Two Nonfiction Texts: Sexual Subject? Desired Object? Mary Ann Harlan Chapter 5. Perfect Love in a Better World: Same-Sex Attraction between Girls Wendy L. Rouse Chapter 6. Narrating Muslim Girlhood in the Pakistani Cityscape of Graphic Narratives Tehmina Pirzada Chapter 7. Confronting Girl-bullying and Gaining Voice in Two Novels by Nicholasa Mohr Barbara Roche Rico Chapter 8. "Like Alice, I was Brave": The Girl in the Text in Olemaun's Residential School Narratives Roxanne Harde Chapter 9. Girl, Interrupted and Continued: Rethinking the Influence of Elena Fortún's Celia Ana Puchau de Lecea Chapter 10. Lolita Speaks: Disrupting Nabokov's "Aesthetic Bliss" Michele Meek Chapter 11. Hope Chest: Demythologizing Girlhood in Kate Bernheimer's Trilogy Catriona McAra Chapter 12. The Girl in the GIF: Reading the Self into Girlfriendship Akane Kanai Chapter 13. Girls' Perspectives on (Mis)Representations of Girlhood in Hegemonic Media Texts Paula MacDowell Chapter 14. Using Fiction, Autoethnography, and Girls' Lived Experience in Preparation for Playwriting Genna Gardini
Introduction: The Girl in the Text: Representations, Positions, and Perspectives Ann Smith Chapter 1. Naughtiest Girls, Go Girls, and Glitterbombs: Exploding Schoolgirl Fictions Lucinda McKnight Chapter 2. "This Is My Story": The Reclaiming of Girls' Education Discourses in Malala Yousafzai's Autobiography Rosie Walters Chapter 3. The Girl: Dead 39 Fiona Nelson Chapter 4. Girl Constructed in Two Nonfiction Texts: Sexual Subject? Desired Object? Mary Ann Harlan Chapter 5. Perfect Love in a Better World: Same-Sex Attraction between Girls Wendy L. Rouse Chapter 6. Narrating Muslim Girlhood in the Pakistani Cityscape of Graphic Narratives Tehmina Pirzada Chapter 7. Confronting Girl-bullying and Gaining Voice in Two Novels by Nicholasa Mohr Barbara Roche Rico Chapter 8. "Like Alice, I was Brave": The Girl in the Text in Olemaun's Residential School Narratives Roxanne Harde Chapter 9. Girl, Interrupted and Continued: Rethinking the Influence of Elena Fortún's Celia Ana Puchau de Lecea Chapter 10. Lolita Speaks: Disrupting Nabokov's "Aesthetic Bliss" Michele Meek Chapter 11. Hope Chest: Demythologizing Girlhood in Kate Bernheimer's Trilogy Catriona McAra Chapter 12. The Girl in the GIF: Reading the Self into Girlfriendship Akane Kanai Chapter 13. Girls' Perspectives on (Mis)Representations of Girlhood in Hegemonic Media Texts Paula MacDowell Chapter 14. Using Fiction, Autoethnography, and Girls' Lived Experience in Preparation for Playwriting Genna Gardini
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