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050 00 $aPR830.C513$bP84 2011
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100 1 $aPugh, Tison.
245 10 $aInnocence, heterosexuality, and the queerness of children's literature /$cby Tison Pugh.
260 $aNew York ;$aLondon :$bRoutledge,$c2011.
300 $axv, 206 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aChildren's literature and culture
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 193-201) and index.
505 0 $aInnocence, heterosexuality, and the queerness of children's literature -- "There lived in the land of Oz two queerly made men" : queer utopianism and antisocial eroticism in L. Frank Baum's Oz books -- Eternal childhood, taming tomboyism, and equine erotic triangles in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little house series -- Erotic heroism, redemptive teen sexuality, and the queer republic of heaven in Philip Pullman's His dark materials -- Dumbledore's queer ghost : homosexuality and its heterosexual afterlives in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels -- "What, then, does Beatrice mean?" : hermaphroditic gender, predatory heterosexuality, and promiscuous allusions in Daniel Handler/Lemony Snicket's A series of unfortunate events -- Excremental eroticism, carnivalesque desires, and gross adolescence in Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl -- Masochistic abstinence, bug chasing, and the erotic death drive in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series -- Homosexuality and the end of innocence in David Levithan's Boy meets boy.
520 $a"Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature examines distinguished classics of children's literature both old and new - including L. Frank Baum's Oz books, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series - to explore the queer tensions between innocence and heterosexuality within their pages. Pugh argues that children cannot retain their innocence of sexuality while learning about normative heterosexuality, yet this inherent paradox runs throughout many classic narratives of literature for young readers. Children's literature typically endorses heterosexuality through its invisible presence as the de facto sexual identity of countless protagonists and their families, yet heterosexuality's ubiquity is counterbalanced by its occlusion when authors shield their readers from forthright considerations of one of humanity's most basic and primal instincts.
520 $aThe book demonstrates that tensions between innocence and sexuality render much of children's literature queer, especially when these texts disavow sexuality through celebrations of innocence. In this original study, Pugh develops interpretations of sexuality that few critics have yet ventured, paving the way for future scholarly engagement with larger questions about the ideological role of children's literature and representations of children's sexuality."--Pub. desc.
650 0 $aChildren's stories, English$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aChildren's stories, American$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aSex in literature.
650 0 $aHeterosexism in literature.
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast
830 0 $aChildren's literature and culture.
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