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Monsters: monstrous identities in young adult romance
Monstrous identities in fantasy for young adults often function as metaphors for cultural tensions about romantic and sexual relations between young people, and about how the young interact with the generation that precedes them. This essay considers four monster figures prevalent in Young Adult (YA) fantasy: the vampire, the werewolf, the monstrous mother, and the monstrous father and analyses their manifestation in YA romances by Robin McKinley, Stephenie Meyer, L. K. Smith and Maggie Stiefvater. It considers what these representations tell us about cultural anxieties over the sexuality of young women, and how they are positioned as reading subjects.
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(Re)Imagining the world: children's literature's response to changing timesSeries
New frontiers of educational researchChapter number
10Pagination
115 - 125Publisher
Springer Science & Business MediaPlace of publication
Heidelberg , GermanyPublisher DOI
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2195-3473eISSN
2195-349XISBN-13
9783642367595ISBN-10
3642367593Language
engPublication classification
B1 Book chapterCopyright notice
2013, SpringerExtent
12Editor/Contributor(s)
Y Wu, K Mallan, R McGillisUsage metrics
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