UID:
edocfu_9959231549102883
Format:
1 online resource (186 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-58729-239-4
Content:
The Sleeping Beauty in Roberta Seelinger Trites' intriguing text is no silent snoozer passively waiting for Prince Charming to energize her life. Instead she wakes up all by herself and sets out to redefine the meaning of "happily ever after." Trites investigates the many ways that Sleeping Beauty's newfound voice has joined other strong female voices in feminist children's novels to generate equal potentials for all children.Waking Sleeping Beauty explores issues of voice in a wide range of children's novels, including books by Virginia Hamilton, Patricia MacLachlan,
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Preface; 1. Defining the Feminist Children's Novel; 2. Subverting Stereotypes: Rejecting Traditional Gender Roles; 3. Subjectivity as a Gender Issue: Metaphors and Intertextuality; 4. Transforming Feminine Silence: Pro/claiming Female Voices; 5. Re/constructing the Female Writer: Subjectivity in the Feminist Künstlerroman; 6. Female Interdependency: Literal and Metaphoric Sisterhood; 7. Refuting Freud: Mother/Daughter Relationships; 8. Metafiction and the Politics of Identity: Narrativity, Subjectivity, and Community; 9. Afterword: Feminist Pedagogy and Children's Literature; Notes
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Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-87745-591-0
Language:
English
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