Boys in children's literature and popular culture masculinity, abjection, and the fictional child /

"Boys in Children's Literature and Popular Culture: Masculinity, Abjection, and the Fictional Child proposes new theoretical frameworks for understanding the contradictory ways masculinity is represented in popular texts consumed by boys in the United States. The popular texts boys like ar...

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Main Author: Wannamaker, Annette.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2008]
Physical Description: xiii, 181 pages ; 24 cm.
Series: Children's literature and culture.
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Online Access: Table of contents only
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490 1 |a Children's literature and culture. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-172) and index. 
505 0 |a Prologue : the rhetoric of the current "boy crisis" -- Introduction : beyond stereotypes and role models : the abject and the American boy -- Me Tarzan, you other : the evolution of an icon -- Reading in the gaps and lacks : (de)constructing masculinity in Louis Sachar's Holes -- "The battle of the Bionic Booger Boy," bodily borders, and B.A.D. boys : pleasure and abjection in the Captain Underpants series -- And Majin Buu said, "I'll eat you up!" : consuming Japanese cultural imports -- Men in cloaks and high-heeled boots, men wielding pink umbrellas : witchy masculinities in the Harry Potter novels -- Conclusion : marking masculinity. 
520 1 |a "Boys in Children's Literature and Popular Culture: Masculinity, Abjection, and the Fictional Child proposes new theoretical frameworks for understanding the contradictory ways masculinity is represented in popular texts consumed by boys in the United States. The popular texts boys like are often ignored by educators and scholars, or are simply dismissed as garbage boys should be discouraged from enjoying. However, examining and making visible the ways masculinity functions in these texts is vital to understanding the broad array of works that make up children's culture and form dominant versions of masculinity."--BOOK JACKET. 
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650 0 |a Masculinity in literature. 
650 0 |a Boys in literature. 
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650 0 |a Children's stories, English  |x History and criticism. 
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