Melancholia and maturation : the use of trauma in American children's literature / Eric L. Tribunella.
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. Tr...
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[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- Losing and using queer youth
- A boy and his dog
- Knowing, unknowing, and the achievement of young adulthood
- Melancholic development and Revolutionary War fiction for children
- Melancholic sacrifice and the Holocaust in American children's culture
- Coda: physical trauma, childhood embodiment, and children's literature.