The Girl in the Text
eBook - ePub

The Girl in the Text

  1. 250 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Girl in the Text

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Introduction. The Girl in the Text: Representations, Positions, and Perspectives
  7. Chapter 1. Naughtiest Girls, Go Girls, and Glitterbombs: Exploding Schoolgirl Fictions
  8. Chapter 2. “This Is My Story”: The Reclaiming of Girls’ Education Discourses in Malala Yousafzai’s Autobiography
  9. Chapter 3. The Girl: Dead
  10. Chapter 4. Girl Constructed in Two Nonfiction Texts: Sexual Subject? Desired Object?
  11. Chapter 5. Perfect Love in a Better World: Same-Sex Attraction between Girls
  12. Chapter 6. Narrating Muslim Girlhood in the Pakistani Cityscape of Graphic Narratives
  13. Chapter 7. Confronting Girl-bullying and Gaining Voice in Two Novels by Nicholasa Mohr
  14. Chapter 8. “Like Alice, I was Brave”: The Girl in the Text in Olemaun’s Residential School Narratives
  15. Chapter 9. Girl, Interrupted and Continued: Rethinking the Influence of Elena FortĂșn’s Celia
  16. Chapter 10. Lolita Speaks: Disrupting Nabokov’s “Aesthetic Bliss”
  17. Chapter 11. Hope Chest: Demythologizing Girlhood in Kate Bernheimer’s Trilogy
  18. Chapter 12. The Girl in the GIF: Reading the Self into Girlfriendship
  19. Chapter 13. Girls’ Perspectives on (Mis)Representations of Girlhood in Hegemonic Media Texts
  20. Chapter 14. Using Fiction, Autoethnography, and Girls’ Lived Experience in Preparation for Playwriting
  21. Index