Rewriting Love and Identity: A Reparative Reading of Queer Representation in Young Adult Literature
Document
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.
Item Description
Name(s)
Author: Roche, Elizabeth Ann
Thesis advisor: Pitts-Taylor, Victoria
Date
April 15, 2016
Extent
78 pages
Language
eng
Genre
Physical Form
electronic
Discipline
Rights and Use
In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Digital Collection
PID
ir:991