MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2012045553
003 DLC
005 20140524075842.0
008 130109s2013 miu b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2012045553
020 $a9781617038112 (hardback)
020 $z9781617038129 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPS374.I57$bD39 2013
082 00 $a813/.60992837$223
084 $aLIT009000$aLIT004290$2bisacsh
100 1 $aDay, Sara K.
245 10 $aReading like a girl :$bnarrative intimacy in contemporary American young adult literature /$cSara K. Day.
264 1 $aJackson :$bUniversity Press of Mississippi,$c[2013]
300 $aix, 240 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aChildren's literature association series
520 $a"By examining the novels of critically and commercially successful authors such as Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You), Stephenie Meyer (the Twilight series), and Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak), Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature explores the use of narrative intimacy as a means of reflecting and reinforcing larger, often contradictory, cultural expectations regarding adolescent women, interpersonal relationships, and intimacy. Reading Like a Girl explains the construction of narrator-reader relationships in recent American novels written about adolescent women and marketed to adolescent women. Sara K. Day explains, though, that such levels of imagined friendship lead to contradictory cultural expectations for the young women so deeply obsessed with reading these novels. Day coins the term "narrative intimacy" to refer to the implicit relationship between narrator and reader that depends on an imaginary disclosure and trust between the story's narrator and the reader. Through critical examination, the inherent contradictions between this enclosed, imagined relationship and the real expectations for adolescent women's relations prove to be problematic. In many novels for young women, adolescent female narrators construct conceptions of the adolescent woman reader, constructions that allow the narrator to understand the reader as a confidant, a safe and appropriate location for disclosure. At the same time, such novels offer frequent warnings against the sort of unfettered confession the narrators perform. Friendships are marked as potential sites of betrayal and rejection. Romantic relationships are presented as inherently threatening to physical and emotional health. And so, the narrator turns to the reader for an ally who cannot judge. The reader, in turn, may come to depend upon narrative intimacy in order to vicariously explore her own understanding of human expression and bonds"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aIntimacy (Psychology) in literature.
650 0 $aYoung adult literature, American$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aTeenage girls$xBooks and reading$zUnited States.
650 0 $aAdolescence in literature.
650 0 $aGirls in literature.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Children's Literature.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors.$2bisacsh
776 08 $iOnline version:$aDay, Sara K.$tReading like a girl$dJackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013$z9781617038129$w(DLC) 2013002086
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers/1343/2684745/image/lgcover.4120725.jpg