Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture (eBook)

LuElla D'Amico (Herausgeber)

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2016
352 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1764-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This collection explores the influence of girls’ series books on popular American culture and girls’ everyday experiences. It explores the cultural work that the series genre performs, contemplating the books’ messages about subjects including race, gender, and education, and examines girl fiction within a variety of disciplinary contexts.

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Girls Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which young female heroines in American series fiction have undergone dramatic changes in the past 150 years, changes which have both reflected and modeled standards of behavior for America's tweens and teen girls. Though series books are often derided for lacking in imagination and literary potency, that the majority of American girls have been exposed to girls' series in some form, whether through books, television, or other media, suggests that this genre needs to be studied further and that the development of the heroines that girls read about have created an impact that is worthy of a fresh critical lens. Thus, this collection explores how series books have influenced and shaped popular American culture and, in doing so, girls' everyday experiences from the mid nineteenth century until now. The collection interrogates the cultural work that is performed through the series genre, contemplating the messages these books relay about subjects including race, class, gender, education, family, romance, and friendship, and it examines the trajectory of girl fiction within such contexts as material culture, geopolitics, socioeconomics, and feminism.

Autor

LuElla D’Amico is assistant professor of English and interim of the women’s and gender studies program at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington.

Inhalt

1. “Louisa May Alcott’s Theater of Time” Marlowe Daly-Galeano, Lewis-Clark State University2. “Queering the Katy Series: Disability, Emotion, and Imagination in the Novels of Susan Coolidge.”Eva Lupold, Rutgers University-Camden3. “Working Girl: The Value of Girl Labor in The Five Little Peppers Book Series” Christiane E. Farnan, Siena College4. “‘A Spectacle of Girls: L. Frank Baum, Women Reporters, and the Man Behind the Screen in Early Twentieth-Century America” Paige Gray, University of Southern Mississippi5. “Nancy Drew’s Shadow: Trixie Belden and a Case for Imperfection” Michael Cornelius, Wilson College6. The Bob-Whites of the Belden-Wheeler Detective Agency: Gender, Class, and Race in the Trixie Belden series, 1948-1986” Carolyn Cocca, State University of New York, College at Old Westbury7. “Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden: Girl Detectives, Role Models, and Feminist Icons”Nichole Bogarosh, Whitworth University8. “Cherry Ames: A New Woman for the 1940s” Linda Simon, Skidmore College9. “From Betsy-Tacy to the Blog: Diary-Keeping, Self-narrative and Adolescent Identity in American Girls’ Books”Megan Friddle, Emory University10. “‘Girl-Sized Views’ of History: Political Consciousness in the American Girl Series” Mariko Turk, University of Florida 11. “‘I Like Sports and You Like Clothes, But We Both Love Babies!: Problems of Identity, Voice, and Indoctrination in The Baby-Sitters Club Series” Mary Bronstein, Independent Scholar12. “Fancy Nancy: Precocious or Precious?Lori Johnson and Lisa Laurier, Whitworth University13. “‘Beyond Cruel’: Female Heroines and Third-Wave Feminism in The Vampire Academy” Janine Darragh, University of Idaho14. “Growing up in the 21st Century: Pretty Little Liars and their Pretty Little Devices” Grace Halden, University of London

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• Co-Autor: Nichole Bogarosh, Grace Halden, Lori Johnson, Lisa Laurier, Eva Lupold, Linda Simon, Mariko Turk, Mary Bronstein, Carolyn Cocca, Michael G. Cornelius, Marlowe Daly-Galeano, Janine J. Darragh, Christiane E. Farnan, Megan E. Friddle, Paige Gray
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Baby-Sitters Club • fancy nancy • Feminism • girlhood • Girls' Series • Little Women • Louisa May Alcott • Nancy Drew • popular culture • Pretty Little Liars • series books • Trixie Belden
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-1764-1 / 1498517641
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-1764-5 / 9781498517645