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Author:
Lehtonen, Sanna, 1979-
Title:
Girls transforming : invisibility and age-shifting in children's fantasy fiction since the 1970s / Sanna Lehtonen.
Publisher:
McFarland & CompanyInc., Publishers,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
ix, 222 pages ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Children's stories--History and criticism.
Fantasy fiction--History and criticism.
Girls in literature.
Magic in literature.
Self-realization in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Age groups in literature.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-218) and index.
Contents:
Magic cloaks and potions: motifs and tropes of invisibility and age-shifting -- Witch power-invisibility, age-shifting and empowerment -- Deconstructing and reconstructing female subjectivity: magic transformation and girls' coming of age -- Discourses of gender, power and desire: invisibility and female gaze -- Crossing borders: queer aging.
Series:
Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy ; 38
ISBN:
0786461365 (softcover : alk. paper)
9780786461363 (softcover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)812509457
LCCN:
2013007857
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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