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Female heroes in young adult fantasy fiction : reframing myths of adolescent girlhood / Leah Phillips.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Phillips, Leah, author.
- Series:
- Library of gender and popular culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fantasy fiction, American--History and criticism.
- Fantasy fiction, American.
- Young adult fiction, American--History and criticism.
- Young adult fiction, American.
- Teenage girls in literature.
- Adolescence in literature.
- Heroines in literature.
- Women heroes.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 189 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
- Contents:
- The hero's prize : the myth of 'successful' adolescent girlhood
- Mythopoeic YA : bringing new worlds into being to conceive new ways of being
- Disrupting the myth : Alanna becomes a warrior-maiden
- Breaking the mirror : Cinder(ella) is a cyborg
- Engendering a new myth : Daine is 'of the people'
- Being-hero : relational, embodied, procreative selfhood.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-177) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Phillips, Leah. Female heroes in young adult fantasy fiction.
- ISBN:
- 9781350119345 (electronic bk.)
- 1350119342 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 90100294530
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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