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Real women aren't shiny (or plastic) the adolescent female body in YA fantasy
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Phillips, Leah (2015) Real women aren't shiny (or plastic) the adolescent female body in YA fantasy. Girlhood Studies, 8 (3). pp. 40-55. doi:10.3167/ghs.2015.080305 ISSN 1938-8209.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2015.080305
Abstract
In this article I explore how mythopoeic Young Adult (YA) fantasy offers examples of living and being an adolescent female body that challenge the dominant, hegemonic discourses dictating the adolescent girl's appearance in the West's imagesaturated culture. I begin by establishing the features of mythopoeic YA fantasy, before looking at Daine in Tamora Pierce's Immortals quartet and Cinder(ella) in Marissa Meyer's The Lunar Chronicles. Daine's shape-shifting body and Cinder's cybernetic one offer bodily change as an integral part of the (adolescent female) body, as opposed to the fixed perfection required by the fantasy femininity on offer in popular culture, including print, televisual, and social media. Employing a reading of touch in order to explore the multiplicity that is available on, and through, these bodies, I question the representational economy dominating the hegemonic discursive construction of the adolescent girl.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism P Language and Literature > PZ Childrens literature |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Girlhood Studies | ||||||
| Publisher: | Berghahn Journals | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1938-8209 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 1 December 2015 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 8 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 40-55 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.3167/ghs.2015.080305 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 30 October 2018 |
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