Rewriting Love and Identity: A Reparative Reading of Queer Representation in Young Adult Literature

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Employing Sedgwick's concept of "reparative reading," this thesis will examine YA texts that construct queer narratives in such a way as to fracture the heteronormative structures that govern young adult literature. This project will focus primarily on three YA authors whose writing has altered the terrain of queer YA literature in some way: Nancy Garden, Julie Anne Peters, and David Levithan. Following the trajectories of these authors and their writings from 1982 to 2013, the possibility begins to emerge for YA literature to be a valuable form of queer representation.

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    Date
    April 15, 2016
    Extent
    78 pages
    Language
    eng
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    electronic
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    In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted
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    ir:991