Disturbing the universe

By Roberta Seelinger Trites

Subjects: Refoulement (Psychologie) dans la littérature, Adolescence in literature, Jugendliteratur, Adolescents, Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) dans la littérature, LITERARY CRITICISM, American Literature, Macht, Books and reading, Adolescence dans la littérature, Roman pour jeunes adultes américain, American, Children's Literature, American Young adult fiction, History and criticism, Histoire et critique, Young adult fiction, American, English, Languages & Literatures, Teenagers, Power (Social sciences) in literature, Postmodernisme (Littérature), Livres et lecture, Repression (Psychology) in literature, Postmodernism (Literature), General

Description: "Trites argues that the development of the genre over the past thirty years is an out-growth of postmodernism, since YA novels are, by definition, texts that interrogate the social construction of individuals. Drawing on such nineteenth-century precursors as Little Women and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Disturbing the Universe demonstrates how important it is to employ poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing adolescent literature, both in critical studies and in the classroom. Among the twentieth-century authors discussed are Blume, Hamilton, Hinton, Le Guin, L'Engle, and Zindel." "Trite's work has applications for a broad range of readers, including scholars of children's literature and theorists of postmodernity as well as librarians and secondary-school teachers."--BOOK JACKET.