Waking Sleeping Beauty : feminist voices in children's novels / by Roberta Seelinger Trites.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trites, Roberta Seelinger, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's stories--History and criticism.

Children's stories.

Feminism and literature.

Women and literature.

Sex role in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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,

Contents:

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

Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-162) and index.

ISBN:

9781587292392

1587292394