UID:
almahu_9949870127602882
Format:
1 online resource
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781350119345
Series Statement:
Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Content:
The heroic romance is one of the West's most enduring narratives, found everywhere, from religion and myth to blockbuster films and young adult literature. Within this story, adolescent girls are not, and cannot be, the heroes. They are, at best, the hero's bride, a prize he wins for slaying monsters. Crucially, although the girl's exclusion from heroic selfhood affects all girls, it does not do so equally - whiteness and able-bodiedness are taken as markers of heightened, fantasy femininity. Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction explores how the young female-heroes of mythopoeic YA, a Tolkienian-inspired genre drawing on myth's world-creating power and YA's liminal potential, disrupt the conventional heroic narrative. These heroes, such as Tamora Pierce's Alanna the Lioness, Daine the Wildmage, and Marissa Meyer's Cinder and Iko, offer a model of being-hero, an embodied way of living and being in this world that disrupts the typical hero's violent hierarchy, isolating individuality, and erasure of difference. In doing so, they push the boundaries of what it means to be a hero, a girl, and even human..
Note:
Series Editors' Introduction Preface 1.The hero's prize: The myth of 'successful' adolescent girlhood 2. Mythopoeic YA: Bringing new worlds into being to conceive new ways of being 3.Disrupting the myth: Alanna becomes a warrior-maiden 4.Breaking the mirror: Cinder(ella) is a cyborg 5.Engendering a new myth: Daine is 'of the people' 6.Being-Hero: Relational, embodied, procreative selfhoo Appendices Notes Bibliography Index.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350119345
URL:
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350119345?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
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