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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The Girl in the Text
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- 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. âThis Is My Storyâ: The Reclaiming of Girlsâ Education Discourses in Malala Yousafzaiâs 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. âLike Alice, I was Braveâ: The Girl in the Text in Olemaunâs Residential School Narratives
- Chapter 9. Girl, Interrupted and Continued: Rethinking the Influence of Elena FortĂșnâs Celia
- Chapter 10. Lolita Speaks: Disrupting Nabokovâs âAesthetic Blissâ
- Chapter 11. Hope Chest: Demythologizing Girlhood in Kate Bernheimerâs Trilogy
- Chapter 12. The Girl in the GIF: Reading the Self into Girlfriendship
- Chapter 13. Girlsâ Perspectives on (Mis)Representations of Girlhood in Hegemonic Media Texts
- Chapter 14. Using Fiction, Autoethnography, and Girlsâ Lived Experience in Preparation for Playwriting
- Index
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