Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Representations of Masculinity in Australian Young Adult Fiction
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

"This chapter discusses the early stage of a research inquiry into the implications of changing representations of masculinity offered in young adult literature to adolescent, male readers."

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Children's Literature and the Fin de Siécle Roderick McGillis (editor), Westport : Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc , 2003 7654066 2003 anthology criticism

    The close of a century invites both retrospection and prognostication. As a period of transition, it also brings a sense of uncertainty, finality, and apocalypticism. These feelings stem from various events, such as political turmoil, scientific advancements, and social change. As might be expected, literature reflects such changes and the feelings they engender. But perhaps more surprisingly, children's literature is especially sensitive to such matters, and fiction for children often struggles with dark and unpleasant issues. This book examines fin de siécle tensions in 19th- and 20th-century children's literature from around the world.

    Each chapter is written by an expert contributor, and the volume ranges over a disparate variety of topics. These include poetry, series books, pacifist fiction, gender issues, religion and literature, eco-criticism, minority experiences, humor and the Holocaust, fantasy and science fiction, and computer culture. In exploring these issues in relation to children's literature, the contributors reveal the shifting nature of our values and the world in which we live. Global in nature, the chapters look at children's literature from such places as Germany, Holland, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States. (Amazon)

    Westport : Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc , 2003
    pg. 169-178
Last amended 30 Jul 2014 15:58:48
169-178 Representations of Masculinity in Australian Young Adult Fictionsmall AustLit logo
Subjects:
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X