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Reading like a girl : narrative intimacy in contemporary American young adult literature / Sara K. Day.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Day, Sara K., author.
- Series:
- Children's Literature Association series.
- Children's literature association series
- Children's Literature Association series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.
- Young adult literature, American--History and criticism.
- Young adult literature, American.
- Teenage girls--Books and reading--United States.
- Teenage girls.
- Adolescence in literature.
- Girls in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
- Summary:
- By examining the novels of critically and commercially successful authors such as Sarah Dessen, Stephenie Meyer, and Laurie Halse Anderson, Day explores the use of narrative intimacy as a means of reflecting and reinforcing larger, often contradictory, cultural expectations regarding adolescent women, interpersonal relationships, and intimacy. She explains the construction of narrator-reader relationships in recent American novels written about adolescent women and marketed to adolescent women.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. "She Is a Creature Designed for Reading": Narrative Intimacy and the Adolescent Woman Reader
- 2. "Opening Myself Like a Book to the Spine": Disclosure and Discretion in Constructions of Friendship
- 3. "He Couldn't Get Close Enough": The Exploration and Relegation of Desire
- 4. "She Doesn't Say a Word": Violations and Reclamations of Intimacy
- 5. "What if Someone Reads It?": Concealment and Revelation in Diary Fiction
- 6. "Let Me Know What You Think": Fan Fiction and the Reimagining of Narrative Intimacy
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 17, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-62103-960-9
- OCLC:
- 824610061
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