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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Adolescent fiction"”.
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Responses of four adolescent females to adolescent fiction with strong female characters
… study is an investigation of responses of four adolescent girls to the characters in two adolescent novels: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred Taylor; and Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson. The novels were chosen because the main characters are strong, independent young females, whose various …
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Moments of excess: Type 1 diabetes and the myth of control in adolescent fiction for girls
… the stories of the Type 1 diabetic teen girls of adolescent fiction. In novels for adolescent readers, these girls are often White, female, heterosexual, and middle class—resulting in a collective disability narrative that portrays an “every girl” and lacks cultural or political dimensions. This …
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Scribbling Girls, Becoming Writers: A Speculative Mapping of Girl Writer Characters in Classic and Contemporary Adolescent Fiction
… writing practices in classic and contemporary adolescent fiction. While novels about female artistic growth are often defined by developmental narrative frameworks, epitomised by the structures of the *Bildungsroman* and the *Künstlerroman*, my project identifies the process-oriented, embodied, …
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Fatherhood and Fatherland in Chimamanda Adichie's "Purple Hibiscus".
… appears at first glance to be a simple work of adolescent fiction, a <em>bildungsroman</em> in which a pair of siblings navigate the typical challenges of incipient adulthood: social ostracism, an abusive parent, emerging desire. However, the novel's setting-a revolutionary-era Nigeria-is …
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The Hollywood Novel : An American Literary Genre
The Hollywood Novel is an American regional fiction genre that treats characters working in the film industry either in Hollywood or with a Hollywood production company on location. Although pre-Hollywood film novels set in the eastern filmmaking capitals flourished as early as 1912, the Hollywood …
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Die representasie van omstrede kwessies in kontemporêre Afrikaanse jeugverhale
… the assumption that the literature which the adolescent reads, has a directive value. Quite often the reader will choose to read material about a certain situation with which the reader is also faced in real life. It may be easy for the reader to identify with a character in similar …