"Beyond the Boundaries:" Negotiations of Space, Place, Body and Subjectivity in YA Fiction

Autor/in	Hamilton-McKenna, Caroline
Titel	"Beyond the Boundaries:" Negotiations of Space, Place, Body and Subjectivity in YA Fiction
Quelle	In: Children's Literature in Education, 52 (2021) 3, S.307-325 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Hamilton-McKenna, Caroline)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0045-6713
DOI	10.1007/s10583-020-09419-4
Schlagwörter	Adolescent Literature; Self Concept; Feminism; Human Geography; Human Body; Barriers; Minority Groups; Literary Criticism; Immigrants; Refugees + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescents; Literature; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; literatur; Selbstkonzept; Feminismus; Humangeografie; Menschlicher Körper; Ethnische Minderheit; Literaturkritik; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Flüchtling
Abstract	Where and how do I belong? As Erin Spring (2016a) notes in her examination of space, place, and youth engagement with literature, "young adult fiction is fraught with implications for identity, of which place often takes center stage" (p. 432). Yet despite the ubiquity of adolescent characters' negotiations within and across physical and cultural spaces in contemporary texts for young people, few scholars address the interconnectedness of those spheres with perceptions of subjectivity and the material body. Drawing on the theoretical framework of feminist cultural geography (Massey, 1994; Rose, 1993) and relevant scholarship on conceptualizations of the body (i.e., Butler, 1990; Longhurst, 2001), I aim to uncover some of the ways in which young protagonists respond to the perceived barriers, boundaries, and borders of their bodies, subjectivities, and worlds--including the subtle ways in which they actively shape and redefine them (Bavidge, 2006). In addition to examining the experiences of displaced or somehow othered protagonists in three works of youth fiction--Sonya Harnett's "Surrender," Jacqueline Woodson's "Brown Girl Dreaming," and Thanhha Lai's "Inside Out & Back Again"--I consider how literary spatial analyses of subjectivity and body might enable readers to critically reflect on the real world constraints and freedoms encountered by young people across the spaces and places of their everyday lives. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01