Arguing that metaphor and the figurative are central to constructions and narrations of adolescence in America, this book uses a wide array of fictional and critical work, including texts by important authors such as Sylvia Plath, Joyce Carol Oates and Jeffrey Eugenides, to provide original and provocative newreadings of adolescence. ÍNDICE: Introduction: 'Can You Feel It Yet?': Notes Towards a Poetics of Adolescence in American Literature - Unpacking 'Something Dark': Narrating Southern Female Adolescence in Jill McCorkle's The Cheer Leader and Ferris Beach, Josephine Humphreys's Rich in Love, Sylvia Wilkinson's Bone of My Bones, and Thulani Davis's 1959 - The Fly, the Earthworm, the Bottle and the Bell Jar: Female Adolescents as Philosophers and Revolutionaries in Sylvia Plath's The BellJar, Joyce Carol Oates's I'll Take You There, Toni Cade Bambara's 'Sweet Town' and Alice Hoffman's Property Of - 'So, to recap': Signifying Adolescence in Danzy Senna's Caucasia and Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex - Conclusion: To recap, again - Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-20551-2
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 232
- Fecha Publicación: 07/11/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés