Representations of rural lesbian lives in young adult fiction

被引：3

作者：

Keys, Wendy ^{[1
]}

Marshall, Elizabeth ^{[2
]}

Pini, Barbara ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Griffith Univ, Sch Humanities Languages & Social Sci, Nathan, Qld, Australia

[2] Simon Fraser Univ, Fac Educ, Burnaby, BC, Canada

来源：

DISCOURSE-STUDIES IN THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF EDUCATION | 2017年 / 38卷 / 03期

关键词：

Lesbian; youth adult fiction; rural; queer; PEDAGOGIES; NOVELS; SPACE;

D O I：

10.1080/01596306.2017.1306981

中图分类号：

G40 [教育学];

学科分类号：

040101 ; 120403 ;

摘要：

This paper examines representations of rural lesbian lives in three young adult novels. The novels analysed are Beauty of the broken by Tawni Waters (2014), Julie Anne Peters (2005) Pretend you love me, and Forgive me if you've heard this one before by Karelia Stetz-Waters (2014). The first of the novels by Waters (2014. Beauty of the broken. NewYork, NY: Simon Pulse) presents a very negative portrait of rural life for queer youth. Its message is that the only positive queer life is one that is lived in the urban. In contrast, the texts by Peters (2005. Pretend you love me. NewYork, NY: Little Brown) and Stetz-Waters (2014. Forgive me if you've heard this one before. Portland, OR: Ooligan Press) present rural spaces as potentially both inclusive and exclusive for queer youth. These novels also demonstrate that urban spaces can be equally problematic for queer youth. While we do not discount that Waters (2014. Beauty of the broken. NewYork, NY: Simon Pulse) description of rural life may be the experience of some queer youth, we argue that the novels by Peters (2005. Pretend you love me. NewYork, NY: Little Brown) and Stetz-Waters (2014. Forgive me if you've heard this one before. Portland, OR: Ooligan Press) offer a more nuanced and complicated notion of place and its relationship to non-normative sexual subjectivities.

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页码：354 / 364

页数：11

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