Looking glasses and neverlands : Lacan, desire, and subjectivity in children's literature / by Karen Coats.
"This study introduces and explores Lacan's complex theories of subjectivity and desire through close readings of canonical children's books such as Charlotte's Web, Stella-luna, Holes, Tangerine, the The Chocolate War. Looking Glasses and Neverlands thus provides an introduction...
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- The subject of children's literature
- How to save your life: lessons from a runt pig
- A time to mourn: the loss of the mother
- Mourning into dancing: recuperating the loss of the mother
- Looking glasses and neverlands: beyond the symbolic
- "I never explain anything": children's literature and sexuation
- Blinded by the white: the responsibilities of race
- Abjection and adolescent fiction: ways out
- Postmoderns at the gates of dawn.