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The Girl in the Text / ed. by Ann Smith.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Transnational Girlhoods ; 1Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789203233
  • 9781789203257
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.409352352 23
LOC classification:
  • PS374.G55 .G575 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction The Girl in the Text: Representations, Positions, and Perspectives -- Chapter 1 Naughtiest Girls, Go Girls, and Glitterbombs: Exploding Schoolgirl Fictions -- Chapter 2 “This Is My Story”: The Reclaiming of Girls’ Education Discourses in Malala Yousafzai’s Autobiography -- Chapter 3 The Girl: Dead -- Chapter 4 Girl Constructed in Two Nonfiction Texts: Sexual Subject? Desired Object? -- Chapter 5 Perfect Love in a Better World: Same-Sex Attraction between Girls -- Chapter 6 Narrating Muslim Girlhood in the Pakistani Cityscape of Graphic Narratives -- Chapter 7 Confronting Girl-bullying and Gaining Voice in Two Novels by Nicholasa Mohr -- Chapter 8 “Like Alice, I was Brave”: The Girl in the Text in Olemaun’s Residential School Narratives -- Chapter 9 Girl, Interrupted and Continued: Rethinking the Influence of Elena Fortún’s Celia -- Chapter 10 Lolita Speaks: Disrupting Nabokov’s “Aesthetic Bliss” -- Chapter 11 Hope Chest: Demythologizing Girlhood in Kate Bernheimer’s Trilogy -- Chapter 12 The Girl in the GIF: Reading the Self into Girlfriendship -- Chapter 13 Girls’ Perspectives on (Mis)Representations of Girlhood in Hegemonic Media Texts -- Chapter 14 Using Fiction, Autoethnography, and Girls’ Lived Experience in Preparation for Playwriting -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction The Girl in the Text: Representations, Positions, and Perspectives -- Chapter 1 Naughtiest Girls, Go Girls, and Glitterbombs: Exploding Schoolgirl Fictions -- Chapter 2 “This Is My Story”: The Reclaiming of Girls’ Education Discourses in Malala Yousafzai’s Autobiography -- Chapter 3 The Girl: Dead -- Chapter 4 Girl Constructed in Two Nonfiction Texts: Sexual Subject? Desired Object? -- Chapter 5 Perfect Love in a Better World: Same-Sex Attraction between Girls -- Chapter 6 Narrating Muslim Girlhood in the Pakistani Cityscape of Graphic Narratives -- Chapter 7 Confronting Girl-bullying and Gaining Voice in Two Novels by Nicholasa Mohr -- Chapter 8 “Like Alice, I was Brave”: The Girl in the Text in Olemaun’s Residential School Narratives -- Chapter 9 Girl, Interrupted and Continued: Rethinking the Influence of Elena Fortún’s Celia -- Chapter 10 Lolita Speaks: Disrupting Nabokov’s “Aesthetic Bliss” -- Chapter 11 Hope Chest: Demythologizing Girlhood in Kate Bernheimer’s Trilogy -- Chapter 12 The Girl in the GIF: Reading the Self into Girlfriendship -- Chapter 13 Girls’ Perspectives on (Mis)Representations of Girlhood in Hegemonic Media Texts -- Chapter 14 Using Fiction, Autoethnography, and Girls’ Lived Experience in Preparation for Playwriting -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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