Death, gender and sexuality in contemporary adolescent literature

Main Author: James, Kathryn.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2009.
Physical Description: xii, 208 pages ; 24 cm.
Series: Children's literature and culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: beginning with endings: death in children's literature
  • Points of departure: death, culture, representation
  • Matilda's last dance: death and historical fiction
  • Verisimilitude: representing death 'in the real'
  • Beyond consensus reality: death and fantasy fiction
  • Imagined futures: death and the post-disaster novel
  • Conclusion: mapping the landscape: the unknown country.