The Girl in the Text

Published by Berghahn Books 2019

The Girl in the Text

Edited by: Ann Smith

Volume 1 in the series Transnational Girlhoods

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789203257

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About this book

How are girls represented in written and graphic texts, and how do these representations inform our understanding of girlhood? In this volume, contributors examine the girl in the text in order to explore a range of perspectives on girlhood across borders and in relation to their positionality. In literary and transactional texts, girls are presented as heroes who empower themselves and others with lasting effect, as figures of liberating pedagogical practice and educational activism, and as catalysts for discussions of the relationship between desire and ethics. In these varied chapters, a new notion of transnationalism emerges, one rooted not only in the process through which borders between nation-states become more porous, but through which cultural and ethnic imperatives become permeable.

Author / Editor information

Ann Smith has been the managing editor of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal since its inception. Formerly a lecturer in the Department of English, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, where she specialized in literary theory with a particular focus on feminism and queer theory, she is now an adjunct professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University, Montreal. Her publications include Was it Something I Wore? Dress, Identity, Materiality (2012) with Relebohile Moletsane and Claudia Mitchell (eds), and Picturing Research: Drawing as Visual Methodology (2011) with Linda Theron, Claudia Mitchell, and Jean Stuart (eds).

Reviews

“The anthology brings forward important voices and perspectives to the field of Girlhood Studies, by raising some pertinent questions about textual interactions. Most significantly, it elucidates the importance of textual reading in a predominantly social science-oriented field like Girlhood Studies.” • Children and Society

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction The Girl in the Text: Representations, Positions, and Perspectives Ann Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 Naughtiest Girls, Go Girls, and Glitterbombs: Exploding Schoolgirl Fictions Lucinda McKnight Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Chapter 2 “This Is My Story”: The Reclaiming of Girls’ Education Discourses in Malala Yousafzai’s Autobiography Rosie Walters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Chapter 3 The Girl: Dead Fiona Nelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Chapter 4 Girl Constructed in Two Nonfiction Texts: Sexual Subject? Desired Object? Mary Ann Harlan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
Chapter 5 Perfect Love in a Better World: Same-Sex Attraction between Girls Wendy L. Rouse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Chapter 6 Narrating Muslim Girlhood in the Pakistani Cityscape of Graphic Narratives Tehmina Pirzada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
Chapter 7 Confronting Girl-bullying and Gaining Voice in Two Novels by Nicholasa Mohr Barbara Roche Rico Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Chapter 8 “Like Alice, I was Brave”: The Girl in the Text in Olemaun’s Residential School Narratives Roxanne Harde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Chapter 9 Girl, Interrupted and Continued: Rethinking the Influence of Elena Fortún’s Celia Ana Puchau De Lecea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Chapter 10 Lolita Speaks: Disrupting Nabokov’s “Aesthetic Bliss” Michele Meek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
Chapter 11 Hope Chest: Demythologizing Girlhood in Kate Bernheimer’s Trilogy Catriona McAra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
Chapter 12 The Girl in the GIF: Reading the Self into Girlfriendship Akane Kanai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
Chapter 13 Girls’ Perspectives on (Mis)Representations of Girlhood in Hegemonic Media Texts Paula MacDowell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Chapter 14 Using Fiction, Autoethnography, and Girls’ Lived Experience in Preparation for Playwriting Genna Gardini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 250
Keywords: girlhood studies; interdisciplinary research; girlhood activism; feminism; women and gender; childhood; sociology; anthropology; development studies; childrens literature studies; cultural studies; monograph; global perspective; international women; womens studies

eBook

Published: July 16, 2019
ISBN: 9781789203257