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Hard Candy, Revenge, and the “Aftermath” of Feminism: “A Teenage Girl Doesn’t Do This”
No full textThis article discusses the film Hard Candy in relation to debates surrounding the meanings of feminism, post-feminism, and girl power. In particular, it explores the rape-revenge narrative as an articulation of ambiguous representations of young women and their relationship to both second-wave and third-wave feminisms. The central example discussed in this article presents a challenging and unsettling representation of a young teenage girl confronting an apparently sexually predatory photographer in his thirties. This article explores the construction of such a teenage avenger with reference to a range of precedents in both film and television. In particular, the article considers on what terms Hard Candy contradicts the positioning of teenage girls as weak and vulnerable.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2015.000
Tomboyism and Familial Belonging in Carson McCullers’s The Member of the Wedding: Queer Sentiments
No full textThis article brings queer-theoretical scholarship on the Southern Gothic into dialogue with the history of childhood and sentimental studies. Published in 1946, Carson McCullers’s The Member of the Wedding introduces readers to Frankie Addams, an awkward, unruly adolescent protagonist who resists the rigid gender and sexual norms of early twentieth-century Southern United States. While McCullers’s writing is often characterized as “Gothic” and “unsentimental,” this paper argues that her tomboy narrative invokes and revises the sentimental Bildungsroman of the mid-nineteenth century. Specifically, McCullers draws upon sentimental tropes of non-traditional families as she reimagines Frankie’s “family.” Like many sentimental child protagonists, Frankie endures the early fracturing of her nuclear family due to the death of her mother but forges a surrogate family with her African American housekeeper, Berenice Sadie Brown, and her cousin, John Henry West. Through her juxtaposition of queer children and non-normative families, McCullers critiques heteronormative institutions and rituals, meditates upon issues of membership in the body politic, and demonstrates how sentimentalism crystallizes persistently around the intersections of race, girlhood, and the family.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2015.000
Lire l’enfant inuit
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Christopher, Neil, et Alan Neal. Ava and the Little Folk. Illus. Jonathan Wright. Iqaluit: Inhabit, 2012.
Evic, Vera. beox6g5/Trip to the Moon. Illus. Elisapee Ishulutaq et coll. Iqaluit: Inhabit, 2013.
Folger, Napatsi. Joy of Apex. Illus. Ann Kronheimer. Iqaluit: Inhabit, 2011.
Nelson, Odile. Moe and Malaya Visit the Nurse. Illus. Peggy Collins. Trad. Louise Flaherty. Iqaluit: Inhabit, 2010.
Noah, Jennifer. Nala’s Magical Mitsiaq: A Story of Inuit Adoption. Illus. Qin Leng. Iqaluit: Inhabit, 2013.
Rumbolt, Paula Ikuutaq. The Legend of Lightning and Thunder. Illus. Jo Rioux. Iqaluit: Inhabit, 2013.
Ulluadluak, Donald. Kamik: An Inuit Puppy Story. Illus. Qin Leng. Iqaluit: Inhabit, 2012.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2015.001
Teaching Genocide
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Gangi, Jane M. Genocide in Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Cambodia to Darfur. New York: Routledge, 2014.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2015.000
Reading Whiteness in Dear Canada and I Am Canada: Historical Fiction of a Multicultural Nation
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Matas, Carol. Footsteps in the Snow: The Red River Diary of Isobel Scott, Rupert’s Land, 1815. Toronto: Scholastic, 2002.
Trottier, Maxine. Blood upon Our Land: The North West Resistance Diary of Josephine Bouvier, Batoche, District of Saskatchewan, 1885. Toronto: Scholastic, 2009.
Trottier, Maxine. The Death of My Country: The Plains of Abraham Diary of Geneviève Aubuchon, Quebec, New France, 1759. Toronto: Scholastic, 2005.
Trottier, Maxine. Storm the Fortress: The Siege of Quebec; William Jenkins, New France, 1759. Toronto: Scholastic, 2013.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2015.000
Dodging and Embracing Young Adulthood in Kevin Major’s Hold Fast and Justin Simms’s Film Adaptation: “Run, Run, You Crazy Fool of a Son”
No full textThis paper reads Kevin Major’s novel Hold Fast and Justin Simms’s recent film adaptation according to the regional context of their creation and the wider national and global context of their distribution. It explores how shifting understandings of both region and genre underpin and orient interpretations of young adulthood in these texts. While both print and screen texts allow for fantasies of the putative persistence of childishness into young adulthood in pastoral Atlantic Canada, they also encode countervailing critical insights into the complex socio-historical realities of the region. It argues for the importance of understanding protagonist Michael’s youth and agency in relation to these realities.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2015.000
