"A girl. A machine. A freak": A Consideration of Contemporary Queer Composites

• Autores: Jennifer Mitchell
• Localización: Bookbird: world of children's books, ISSN 0006-7377, Vol. 52, Nº. 1, 2014, págs. 51-62
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Approaching queerness as intrinsically tied to the rejection of notions of the self as fixed, stable, and monolithic, I argue that contemporary young adult literature that incorporates inter-species romances is a site of new queer possibilities. I read Marissa Meyer�s Cinder and the first two novels in Laini Taylor�s Daughter of Smoke and Bone series as broadening current metaphors for queerness