Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction - Leah Phillips

Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction

Reframing Myths of Adolescent Girlhood

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-19423-6 (ISBN)
36,15 inkl. MwSt
The heroic romance is one of the West’s most enduring narratives, found everywhere, from religion and myth to blockbuster films and young adult literature. Within this story, adolescent girls are not, and cannot be, the heroes. They are, at best, the hero’s bride, a prize he wins for slaying monsters. Crucially, although the girl’s exclusion from heroic selfhood affects all girls, it does not do so equally— whiteness and able-bodiedness are taken as markers of heightened, fantasy femininity.

Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction explores how the young female-heroes of mythopoeic YA, a Tolkienian-inspired genre drawing on myth’s world-creating power and YA’s liminal potential, disrupt the conventional heroic narrative. These heroes, such as Tamora Pierce's Alanna the Lioness, Daine the Wildmage, and Marissa Meyer's Cinder and Iko, offer a model of being-hero, an embodied way of living and being in this world that disrupts the typical hero’s violent hierarchy, isolating individuality, and erasure of difference. In doing so, they push the boundaries of what it means to be a hero, a girl, and even human.

Leah Phillips is Senior Lecturer in English at Plymouth Marjon University, UK. She is the Programme Lead for the BA English and MA Literature for Children and Young Adults and is the President and Founder of the YA Studies Association (YASA).

Series Editors’ Introduction
Preface
1.The hero’s prize: The myth of ‘successful’ adolescent girlhood
2. Mythopoeic YA: Bringing new worlds into being to conceive new ways of being
3.Disrupting the myth: Alanna becomes a warrior-maiden
4.Breaking the mirror: Cinder(ella) is a cyborg
5.Engendering a new myth: Daine is ‘of the people’
6.Being-Hero: Relational, embodied, procreative selfhoo
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 22.8.2024
Reihe/Serie Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-350-19423-9 / 1350194239
ISBN-13 978-1-350-19423-6 / 9781350194236
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