An edition of Boys in children's literature and popular culture
(2008)
Boys in children's literature and popular culture
masculinity, abjection, and the fictional child
by Annette Wannamaker
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October 18, 2023 | History
xiii, 181 p. ; 24 cm
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Books and reading, Boys, Boys in literature, Children's stories, American, Children's stories, English, History and criticism, Masculinity in literature, Children's literature, history and criticism, Histoires pour enfants américaines, Histoire et critique, Masculinité dans la littérature, Garçons dans la littérature, Garçons, Livres et lecture, Histoires pour enfants anglaises, LITERARY CRITICISM, American, General, Junge, Männlichkeit, Kinderliteratur, Children's stories, American -- History and criticism, Boys -- Books and reading -- United States, Children's stories, English -- History and criticismPlaces
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Table of Contents
Prologue : the rhetoric of the current "boy crisis"
Introduction : beyond stereotypes and role models : the abject and the American boy
Me Tarzan, you other : the evolution of an icon
Reading in the gaps and lacks : (de)constructing masculinity in Louis Sachar's Holes
"The battle of the Bionic Booger Boy," bodily borders, and B.A.D. boys : pleasure and abjection in the Captain Underpants series
And Majin Buu said, "I'll eat you up!" : consuming Japanese cultural imports
Men in cloaks and high-heeled boots, men wielding pink umbrellas : witchy masculinities in the Harry Potter novels
Conclusion : marking masculinity
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-172) and index
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