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...
| Main Author: | Wannamaker, Annette. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2008]
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| Physical Description: |
xiii, 181 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series: |
Children's literature and culture.
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| Online Access: |
Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- 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.