1st Edition
Boys in Children's Literature and Popular Culture Masculinity, Abjection, and the Fictional Child
By Annette Wannamaker
Copyright 2008
196 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
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Routledge
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Boys in Children’s Literature and Popular Culture 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 that boys should be discouraged from enjoying. However, examining and making... Read more
Prologue; Introduction; Chapter 1 Me Tarzan, You Other; Chapter 2 Reading in the Gaps and Lacks; Chapter 3 “The Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy,” Bodily Borders, and B.A.D. Boys; Chapter 4 And Majin Buu Said, “I’ll Eat You Up!”; Chapter 5 Men in Cloaks and High-Heeled Boots, Men Wielding Pink Umbrellas; Conclusion;
Biography
Annette Wannamaker
