Graphic Girlhoods: Visualizing Education and Violence

ISBN-13: 9781138092709 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 160 str.

Elizabeth Marshall

Opis

Calling on a variety of genres, including chilren's novels, comics, picture books, among others, Dr. Elizabeth Marshall takes a critical approach to the images and written portralys of violence as witnessed by our children in literature. Graphic images of racial and gender inequality, neo-colonialism, subtexts of sexual violence and monstrosity saturate some of the most well-known and popular chilren's literature thourghtout recent history, and we have to wonder how this is shaping our children and our society. This work sets out on a mission illuminate some of this imagry and define how it can be intrepreted by our children.

Spis treści

List of Figures

Introduction

PART I: Cultural Pedagogies of Girlhood

1 Recess Queens: Mean Girls in Visual-Verbal Texts

2 Nice White Girls: Violence and Racial Masquerade in Nancy Drew

3 Picturing Rape Culture: Little Red Riding Hood and School Dress Codes

PART 2: Resistant Schoolgirls

4 Deschooling Girlhood: Fairy Tales, Trauma, and Education in Lynda Barry’s Comics

5 Schoolgirl Activists: Documenting Segregation and Residential Schooling in Auto/biographical Picture Books

6 Reframing Schoolgirls: Social Violence and Justice in Words and Pictures

7 Final Lessons: Reading Like a Girl

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Dr. Elizabeth Marshall is an Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada.