"Coming of age" in children's fiction often means achieving maturity through the experience of trauma. In classics ranging from Old Yeller to The Outsiders, a narrative of psychological pain defies expectations of childhood as a time of innocence and play. In this provocative new book, Eric L. Tribunella explores why trauma, especially the loss of a loved object, occurs in some of the most popular and critically acclaimed twentieth-century American fiction for children. Tribunella draws on queer theory and feminist revisions of Freud's notion of melancholia, which is described as a...
"Coming of age" in children's fiction often means achieving maturity through the experience of trauma. In classics ranging from Old Yeller to The O...
Read alongside major developments in English- and German-language sexology, work by Stevenson and other gay writers who wrote for children, can be understood as participating in the construction and dissemination of the discourse of sexuality and as constituting the figure of the young Uranian as central to modern gay identity.
Read alongside major developments in English- and German-language sexology, work by Stevenson and other gay writers who wrote for children, can be un...